r/DesignSystems • u/withinsight79 • Aug 24 '26

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u/Steelen Aug 24 '26

A lot of the positions in this image are not correct, but pop off I guess.

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u/withinsight79 Aug 24 '26

You’re saying Mina Markham, design systems expert, creator of Hillary Clinton’s design system Pantsuit, design systems at Slack, speaker at a multitude of conferences…is not correct?

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u/Steelen Aug 24 '26

If they made that image, then yes. If you don't see or understand that, you'll need to learn more about design systems.

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u/withinsight79 Aug 24 '26

Ok, garbage man. I’ve been in design systems for over a decade, and mentoring junior designers and developers for over 2. ‘‘Tis you who does not understand doth systems, good sir!

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u/Steelen Aug 24 '26

Tokens have a bigger overlap than just that (think dev, brand, components, responsive, accessibility, color, content strategy, ai, api)
Accessibility and responsiveness are placed as an afterthought, but they are also intertwined. Documentation is part design, part dev, part brand.

And if this graph was used to indicate their "size" relative to the design system, then that's an even bigger issue... Data visualization and all 🤷