A short piece that reframes design systems as a social and organizational artifact first, a technical one second. The components are easy; the conventions, shared language, and trust between teams are hard. Kholmatova is good at naming things that practitioners know but rarely say out loud.
The point about governance being the most important and most neglected part of a design system has aged well. Most failed design systems I've seen failed because of people problems, not technology.
Built with Paste. Mostly possible due to Simon Taggart, who patiently handles my 101 Qs.
Black Lives Matter.
No human is illegal.
Sex worker rights are labor rights.
Our liberation is bound together.