Along the journey of building a great design system, let’s talk about what you need to know.

STEP 1. Review the existing components

Skills ✅ User Need Analysis ✅ Organization

Firstly, we want to understand what’s out there for your product (design system) to serve. We look at the company’s product screen by screen and list out all the existing components.

Take the medium page as an example, I took a screenshot and label the components on the screen.

The process can be tedious but it pays off later. In this step, be sure to pay attention to the below.

• The components
• Their categories
• Their quantities
• The importance (or factors based on company strategy for prioritization later)
• Design inconsistencies

STEP 2. Research

Skills ✅ Market Research

There are tons of design systems for us to learn from. They can focus on components based…