Fieldnotes #04
Design system governance, components vs patterns, and too much coffee.
Heavy governance week. Working through how to structure contribution to the design system - who can raise issues, how proposals get reviewed, when things get merged vs. documented as patterns.
Had a good conversation about the distinction between components and patterns - a component is a UI building block, a pattern is a documented solution to a recurring design problem. Sometimes they overlap, but conflating them leads to a component library that grows without purpose.
The festive season brings with it an unreasonable number of coffee meetings and I have accepted my fate.