From the course: UX Foundations: Style Guides and Design Systems

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Build, review, and release schedules

Build, review, and release schedules

- I already mentioned that you'll need to show your executives a high-level project plan as part of the justification process for building a design system. You have to approach the creation of the design system like you would any other project. It should have milestones and releases, acceptance criteria, and metrics. The best way to ensure you commit to your plan is to make it public within the organization so that other teams can align with you and so that you set expectations for what types of contributions you'd like from other people at each stage of the process. However much you'd like to move the whole organization to your new design system in one massive migration effort, it's probably more practical to start small and stay generic. Focus on common fundamental and foundational interface elements that every team can use and on visual branding elements like colors, typography and icons. Build in accessibility…

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