Perspective
Notes on consistency, governance, and the discipline of design systems at scale.
Understand
Audit & Analysis
What an audit actually finds
Most fragmentation is invisible until someone goes looking for it.
The cost of inconsistency, measured
Every divergent pattern is a decision someone has to make again.
Define
Governance & Operating Model
The governance gap in multi-agency services
When ten departments each commission their own interfaces, the brand becomes ten brands.
Who owns the standard?
A design system without an owner is a design system without a future.
Build
Design & Development
What 'tech-agnostic' actually means for a design system
A standard that depends on one platform is not a standard. It is a feature of that platform.
Why accessibility and brand consistency are the same problem
A system that excludes users is, by definition, inconsistent with itself.