Design Systems Best Practices Guidelines for creating and maintaining design systems that ensure visual consistency, accessibility compliance, and scalable component architecture across digital products. Workflow: Setting Up a Design System 1. Audit existing UI — Inventory current components, colors, typography, and spacing across the product to identify inconsistencies and reusable patterns. 2. Define design tokens — Establish primitive tokens (colors, spacing, typography, shadows) as CSS custom properties or a token format (e.g., Style Dictionary) that serves as the single source of truth.…