Every company and team has to have deep collaboration between engineering and design to get the value out of a design system (and not go nuts). Building design patterns first unblock people to work in parallel, keeps people synced up, and results in reusable modules that speed up your next project. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/05/design-patterns-collaborate-design-system/
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