Design system adoption
Design system adoption is the repeated use of shared system assets and decisions in real product work because they offer a dependable route to a result.
- Production reuse
- Contribution
- Migration completion
What design system adoption means
Design system adoption is the repeated use of shared system assets and decisions in real product work because they offer a dependable route to a result.
Downloads, library enablement and component coverage are weak proxies on their own.
How adoption is evidenced
A team that uses the supported status component, contributes a missing state and completes migration instead of detaching an instance provides stronger evidence than package volume.
Useful measures include production reuse, overrides, contribution, migration completion, defects and whether teams know when to reuse or extend. Design-system governance defines how those changes are decided.
Diagnose the operating system
See Governance and Adoption or diagnose the operating system with a Design-System Audit.