A Global Design System | Brad Frost
January 22, 2024
TL;DR: This is a call to action to create a Global Design System that provides the world’s web designers & developers a library of common UI components. A Global Design System would improve the quality and accessibility of the world’s web experiences, save the world’s web designers and developers millions of hours, and make better use of our collective human potential. Sounds pretty good, right? In this article, I’ll talk about our collective design system journey, the rationale for creating a Global Design System, some thoughts on how to make a Global Design System actually happen, and discuss how a Global Design System would impact the world’s web designers and developers. Let’s dig in!