Queering design systems thinking

Despite the way they’ve infiltrated product building processes large and small, the teams behind organizations’ design systems are constantly having to defend their own existence. Paradoxically, companies that see design systems as indispensable to profitable product development dispense of their platform teams first when profits lag. Coupled with the rapid ascendancy of AI-branded design tooling, those of us who work on design systems may be wondering if they’ll be the last ones standing—designing the algorithmic systems that replace our laid-off peers—or the first ones cut?

Source: Queering design systems thinking by John Voss