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# Designing design systems: How to lay the groundwork that drives decision-making
- URL: https://design-bytes.com/designing-design-systems-how-to-lay-the-groundwork-that-drives-decision-making-2/
- Published: 2025-02-10T18:47:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-11T23:18:33.000Z
- Description: A collaboration framework for building or evolving a design system.
- Author: Peter Kaizer
- Tags: Inspiration, Design Systems, Community, Byte

The fine folks at **Adobe Design** have an excellent piece about:

> Developing the future direction of a design system involves complex work to create a viable framework for its evolution — behind which are the needs of the people using it, the legacy of a prior version, and a team’s future vision for it.

WHile this piece focuses on the Adobe Spectrum design system there are many points that would apply to any large-scale design system. A few things stood out to me:

> Gathering designers, developers, product managers, content strategists, researchers, engineers — and anyone else with strong opinions about a design system — can help uncover ideas and behaviors that would make it flexible enough for anyone building products to use.

> Designing in a silo doesn’t serve anyone — and especially not the people who are using a design system to work on a company’s products.

> We organized Spectrum’s playbook into four sections according to the broad ideas gathered from working groups:  
> **1\. Introduction:** Information about the current version of Spectrum, the new version we were  
> working on, a changelog, and information for beta testers  
> **2\. Fundamentals:** Updated concepts and terms, and information about engineering collaboration  
> **3\. Designing with Spectrum:** Details about implementing things like color, typography, object styles, and iconography  
> **4\. Patterns:** Out-of-the-box templates for getting started with testing Spectrum’s new designs

[Read the full article here.](https://medium.com/@Adobe%5FDesign/designing-design-systems-how-to-lay-the-groundwork-that-drives-decision-making-1cdb365f7f95?ref=design-bytes.com)