The Path to Design System Maturity cohort.work

Let’s start this blog straight! If your business is based on design activities, you probably are missing A LOT by not adopting a design system! In today’s fast-paced world we are no longer worried about how many projects we can create but more about HOW we efficiently create projects while efficiently preserving best practices for the NEXT project.  What to feel more insecure about? A design system that you can’t ensure its maturity.

So how to measure a design System maturity level? And how to scale your design system to a high-end level!

Categorizing your Design System according to maturity level

The more Design systems reign over the design world, the more technical terms emerge with it. Complex categorizations are now defining different design systems, but we still can map a design system’s maturity by the simple terms: low, Medium, and High.

Low Maturity:  A design system that lacks maturity is usually due to its dependency on static attributes. Manual efforts are required to ameliorate each and every element of the design separately, where both designers and developers have to spend efforts collaborating cognitively to take every decision and define the how and what of every product.

Medium Maturity: Mid-growth design systems are often in their phase of evolution where they work more on dynamizing the process. At this phase, most component’s attributes and elements are modified to match the fast-paced process. So now we talk about defined frameworks, libraries, etc. that can be used and reused whenever needed.