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I used to think a full design system was overkill for our small team of 4.
We built a basic button component in Storybook last quarter, but our forms still looked messy because everyone coded inputs differently. After our lead dev spent a full day fixing a simple date picker bug across 12 pages, we finally agreed to add form controls to the system. Has anyone else seen a big time save after adding just one more component type?
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jessicab701mo ago
Our color palette arguments wasted more time than the actual coding.
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the_ray1mo ago
Yeah @jessicab70, read somewhere that teams spend like 30% of dev time just on UI stuff like that.
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green.mason17d ago
Man, that hits way too close to home! I've been in meetings where we spent an hour arguing over whether a button should be slightly more blue or slightly more green. Best fix I ever found was just locking the palette down to a small set of approved colors before anyone writes a single line of code. Saves so much back and forth later.
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