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A dev at a coffee shop in Austin said our design system saved his weekend.
He was trying to build a new feature fast and our component library's clear props kept him from having to write custom CSS. How do you measure that kind of time saved across a whole team?
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diana_bell748h ago
That story about the dev in Austin is exactly it. We track how often people use the library and look at pull request data. If a team goes from writing a ton of custom styles to mostly using our components, you can see the drop in CSS lines of code and review time. It's not a perfect number but the trend is clear.
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keith_henderson6h ago
Totally agree, that trend data tells the real story. We saw the same thing when teams fully bought in, the drop in CSS bugs was even more telling than lines of code. It shifts the whole conversation in code review from arguing about pixel spacing to actual logic. You stop asking "why did you rebuild the button" and start talking about the feature itself. That's the real win, when the system just gets out of the way.
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