Dan Mall warns about design systems that become ghost towns, unused for months while stakeholders later complain about inconsistent interfaces. The real scare is the work needed to rescue an abandoned system.
This Halloween. Beware of the scariest things about design systems. After your exciting team off site to finish the best design system ever, you find that no one's used it for weeks. Welcome to your design system ghost town. Your design system ghost town lays dormant for months and your company decides a design system is a waste of time. Design systems are dead to you. Enjoy visiting your design system graveyard yarn. Months later, your CEO complains about the lack of consistency in your products user interfaces. Say hello to the spine chilling stakeholder. It's all up to you now. Can you rescue your design system.
