From the course: Creating a Design System with Adobe XD

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Why do we need a design system?

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Why do we need a design system?

- [Instructor] Why do we need a design system? Let's go over this scenario. A designer is working on designs for an app that we're creating, our website that we're creating, and then a designer goes there, designs all the pages, all the screens, with the buttons and components and all that, that's so statically there on a design file, then once it's all done, according to the designer, he or she throws all that content to a developer almost like over a wall and say, "Hey, this is it, go build it." So first of all, the developer will feel like, "Oh my God, I'm just getting this thing "that I have no ownership on and it's just something "that lands on my lap and I have to built?" So that creates a friction. So this is really, really bad. And as the company or the product scales and you have more designers and more developers, imagine how crazy this scenario gets. It's going to have a lot of designers designing things from…

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