Design

Design systems for small teams

You don’t need a dedicated team to have a design system. You need a few tokens, a few components and discipline.

SandraProduct Design & Marketing · May 20, 2026 · 5 min read

Start with tokens

Colour, type, spacing and radius as named values. It’s an afternoon of work and it makes every later decision faster.

We only extract a component once it’s used three times. Premature abstraction is as costly in design as in code.

A short design file explaining the choices beats a hundred-page library nobody reads.

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