alt Hacker News> I used it today to take a look at my previously built design system with Logos, branding, fonts, and everything else.
The fact that you are using this language tells me you are probably more advanced than the average individual, and likely have higher expectations.
My sister-in-law has a small apparel company. She’s developed quite a bit of skill over the past six years but she really struggled at the start. She had great ideas, but translating them to something she could apply was frustrating. *Anything* that could have helped her there would have been worth a look.
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Funny. My read on that language was this person has absolutely no idea what a truly robust and scalable design system and component library actually are, particularly within the scope of a successful business. Well built ones serve every facet of the organization, not just the product.
> The fact that you are using this language tells me you are probably more advanced than the average individual, and likely have higher expectations.
I am terrible at frontend, but I’m a decent engineer, and I needed to do frontend with AI a few weeks ago. The first thing I did is figure out how other people manage this; apparently there’s a whole design system made of atoms, molecules and organisms that works well.
I asked Claude about this, set up a workflow together, and now I have a design system markdown, maintaining the design standards using the atoms etc vocabulary, and it works really well.
If I can pick this up in a few days, most people that are serious about design are able to as well.