checklist: Maintaining and Scaling the Design System
DesignOps & UX-Engineering · Maintenance & further development
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Clarify structure & responsibilities
e.g. consistency, efficiency, accessibility
e.g. web, app, internal tools, branded products
e.g. system owner, maintainer, contributor, reviewer
e.g. Contribution Guide, Review Guidelines
e.g. Figma, storybook, tokens, code components
Ensuring care & further development
e.g. quarterly or sprint-accompanying
Avoidance of technical and visual debts
e.g. SemVer, documentation of the breaking changes
e.g. Figma ↔ React ↔ Tailwind
e.g. visual regression, accessibility, unit tests
Enabling scaling & communication
e.g. guidelines, do's & don'ts, storybook descriptions
e.g. Slack channel, weekly UX reviews, design clinics
e.g. via Github, form, design system board
e.g. for new teams, domains or brands
e.g. reuse rate, adoption rate, change cycles
last modified: 2 November 2025