Design systems are contracts

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Design systems are contracts

Most design systems fail socially, not technically. Teams bypass them because the system cannot answer the question they actually have.\n\n## Treat it like an API\n\n- Type everything. A token without a type is a rumor.\n- Version ruthlessly. Breaking change? New major version, migration note included.\n- Constrain on purpose. If a component can be composed wrong, it will be.\n\nThe result is not less creativity — it is creativity spent where it differentiates: on the product, not on button variants.\n\n*Sample article shipped with the site — replace it with your own writing from the admin dashboard.*

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