The Unique Challenges of Design Systems at Scale

Setting up a design system can help create consistency and guardrails for authors, designers, strategists, developers, and all involved in creating and maintaining a website or application. But what happens when that design system needs to scale and expand to support numerous agencies or applications, each with a different purpose and audience? In this session, we’ll share some design challenges we’ve encountered when working with design systems that need to scale. We’ll discuss the following challenges:

- Scaling and maintaining design patterns
- Naming systems at scale
- Maintaining a “system of systems”
- Governance and adoption at scale
- Component content flexibility and guidance at scale

This session is for those already familiar with design systems but unsure how to scale them to multiple websites and applications.