Set up design system

Set up design system in Figma — with the four heights of help laid out: do it now, make it easier for the next person to accept, work out the right move when you are stuck, and learn the pattern so it stops coming back.

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The four heights

The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.

Execute — do the immediate task

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We need a functioning design system for the mobile product before Monday’s planning. Create a…
We need a functioning design system for the mobile product before Monday’s planning. Create a system file named Product Design System that contains color tokens for primary, secondary, success, warning, and neutral (use the brand palette I uploaded), text styles for H1, H2, H3, body, caption, and a grid layout 8pt baseline with a 360pt canvas for mobile. Build components for primary button, secondary button, input field, checkbox, and a simple top navigation. Link these components as libraries so the demo file can consume them.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before I share the system with the team, make it easy to use: surface the core tokens at the top as…
Before I share the system with the team, make it easy to use: surface the core tokens at the top as named swatches, create clear naming for text styles (Investor/H1, Investor/Body), make component variants for size and state, and add a short guidelines page that explains when to use primary vs secondary buttons and the spacing rules. Call out any missing states or ambiguous token names that would confuse engineers.

Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

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I published Product Design System and several designers are reporting their files still show old…

I published a library and now designers report mismatched components

I published Product Design System and several designers are reporting their files still show old buttons and text styles. I’m not sure whether they didn’t update the library, or whether I published with different component names that broke instances. What most likely happened and what immediate steps should I take to restore consistency across team files?

Become — change the pattern

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Each quarter we rebuild parts of the system and people keep using private overrides, creating drift…

We keep treating the design system as a one-off deliverable and it breaks quickly

Each quarter we rebuild parts of the system and people keep using private overrides, creating drift between production files and the system. That wastes review time and causes inconsistent UI in releases. Which three process changes would reduce drift, speed adoption, and keep the system reliable for the next six months? Be specific about roles, cadence, and the smallest rules that must change.

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