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“This is the real shift. Design system debt used to be paid by one person, quietly, in files nobody else opened. Now it gets paid by the engineer whose generated component is wrong, the PM whose timeline slips because handoff broke, the marketer whose banners came out off-brand. The cost moved out of your corner and into theirs.
Designers have argued for years that a design system is not a deliverable but a product that needs governance, funding, and an owner(…) The argument was always correct and almost always lost, because the people who held the budget never felt the failure. Now they do.”
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