All articlesSmall teams rarely have time for a full design system. These are the five rules I follow to keep a data heavy interface consistent anyway.
On small product teams the design system often arrives after the product. That is fine, as long as a few rules hold the interface together until then.
These rules later become the first pages of the design system, so nothing is thrown away.
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