Design system contracts: the component lives in neither Figma nor code

A design system exists twice at once. It is in Figma as components, and it is in code as the real thing engineers ship. Those two are supposed to be the same. They never quite stay that way.You change a button in one place. Someone forgets to change it in the other, and they slowly drift apart. A few weeks later, a designer builds a screen with the old button, an engineer builds it with the new … Full Product UX article at UX Collective »