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← Back to InsightsDesign · April 08, 2026 · 4 min read

Design Decisions That Compound

A design system is not a Figma file. It is a set of small, opinionated decisions that get applied a thousand times across a product. The best ones disappear into the work.

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If you find yourself naming buttons "primaryButton2" or shipping the fourth shade of teal this quarter, you don't have a design system — you have a museum.

The compounding ones look like: one type ramp, eight spacing tokens, four button variants, two surface colors. That's it. Everything else is a workaround.

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