- Topics: [[Design]] --- - Design systems are like diets. - Diets are something that all of us have. In it's most simplest form, a diet is literally what you eat and drink. - However, we've conflated the word to associated it with weight loss. Weight loss regimes with catchy names, strong followings, with a newsletter that you can subscribe to. - But all the word really means is what you eat and drink. - So when people say that they want to diet, what they're really saying is that they want to achieve a certain health goal from eating and drinking differently. - For design systems, at least in the context of web and application design, they exist from the moment you've created the UI for your product. - It's just that some people and organizations are more aware and intention about it than others.