There’s no such thing as a “design system designer”

Instead of fabricating titles, we should talk about skills and mindset.

Henrik Ståhl
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readApr 9, 2022

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I was once the Product Owner of a failed design system. There were multiple factors leading to its ultimate demise, but the most important ones all had to do with strategy and execution:

  • Lack of management alignment.
    When building…

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