Building a scalable design system is a significant undertaking. Throughout the process, we addressed key challenges like team alignment, collaboration, and consistency.
I've documented our journey in a two-part series:
1️⃣ Tackling initial challenges and laying the foundation
2️⃣ Scaling the system and key lessons learned
We're sharing our findings, tools, and plans to help you jumpstart your own design system. While many articles focus solely on design token structure or design system pipeline creation, we aimed to provide a comprehensive, end-to-end view of our workflow, using practical examples from the Flo mobile app.
The series focuses primarily on design system foundations, including design tokens, but also includes examples of some components.
If you're building or scaling a design system, I'd love to hear your thoughts or answer any questions in the comments!