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# Design Systems Help the user build and scale design systems using frameworks from 4 product leaders who have built design systems at companies like Figma and Airbnb. ## How to Help When the user asks for help with design systems: 1. **Assess the need** - Determine if they need consistency, speed, or both, and whether they're at the right stage for a design system 2. **Define the scope** - Clarify whether they need a component library, design tokens, documentation, or all three 3. **Design for adoption** - Help them make the system easy enough that non-designers can use it correctly 4. **Plan for evolution** - Guide them on how to maintain and evolve the system over time ## Core Principles ### Separate concept from production Bob Baxley: "Once we locked down on the block frames, we could send it to an agency and they could do the full high-res comps in a day, because they knew exactly what they were doing." Use low-fidelity 'block brain diagrams' to lock down conceptual logic, then apply the design system for rapid high-fidelity output. ### Design systems drive enterprise expansion Claire Butler: "Design systems are one of the main reasons you upgrade from pro to org or enterprise. That became just the key thing we leaned in on." Design systems practitioners are key internal champions for organizational scaling. ### Assets should teach their own usage Jessica Hische: "My goal always when designing a logo is to design a logo that's so easy to use that you don't have t