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type: 'note'
date: '2024-01-16T14:20:00Z'
slug: 'quick-thought-about-design-systems'
published: true
---

Been thinking about how the best design systems aren't the ones with the most components, but the ones with the clearest principles. You can have a thousand perfectly crafted components, but if your team doesn't understand the _why_ behind them, you've just built a very pretty prison.