From the course: UX Foundations: Style Guides and Design Systems
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Setting up a team to build your system
From the course: UX Foundations: Style Guides and Design Systems
Setting up a team to build your system
- Building a design system is not just a part-time job for one person. It's a full-time job for several people. Because the design system is about communicating design concepts to developers in a way that minimizes their effort and maximizes their work output, you'll need a dedicated team with both disciplines represented. Although some companies manage with a team size of two people, four to eight appears to be more common. Most frequently, there's around a 50/50 design and developer split. Most of the developers are front-end specialists, but it's useful to have someone with at least some full-stack experience because it's important to understand issues that teams might face with implementing the design system within their products. On the design side, it's important to have people with skills in visual and interaction design, user research, and also content strategy. Obviously, there'll be some skill overlap…
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