What does a mature, end-to-end design system look like in a big, complex organization? What are all the moving pieces, and how do they hang together as a well-considered architecture? What’s required and what’s optional? Hold onto your butts, because we’re going to go deep on this one. Let’s start here: a design system’s relationship to digital products can be boiled down like so: There’s a design
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