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📝 I wrote a little thought piece on "tailor-made vs. off-the-rack design systems." Curious if this resonates article.app/colebemis/ta...

Good read — it’s a helpful analogy. Thanks for sharing! This triggers a couple thoughts for me: 1. The DS space is democratizing, and the cost of building a tailor-made system is going way down. But it’s still very expensive to do well. Most teams would be better off with an off-the-rack solution.

2. There’s a third category that’s worth mentioning here: DS headless libraries that teams can more fully customize. Radix, Ariakit, React Spectrum, and Ark UI are great examples. IMO those are going to be the engines that drive down DS cost over time.

I just added this note to the bottom of the piece: