Design Patterns Are A Better Way To Collaborate On Your Design System

True collaboration to create or maintain a design system is really important to making superb product design, but working with other humans is always tricky. The collaborative nature of a design system can have a lot of pitfalls. In its best form, it is the product of close alignment between developers and designers, but it doesn’t always happen that way.
Some painful memories:A brilliant designer I worked with made a gorgeous new set of elements and examples for the company to use, but th