Almost eight years ago, I started working on a design system that I got the opportunity to revisit just a few years later. The second round became as big a push with far fewer people. Now, three years after ending the work I’m finally ready to share that experience.My thesis:A rigid design kit is a cache of design decisions, prone to becoming obsolete with the requirements constantly evolving.Documenting practices and boundaries leaves powerless responsibility for upholding coherence to designers and developers.Governing an LLM skill could be a better basis for an evolving design system than components, code or documentation alone.Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blueBack when I wrote my first Medium article about design systems, I was in the middle of a year spent extending a design system towards more consumer-driven businesses. Since then, I have wandered...