This episode of The Question is – like they say during the conversation – one that doesn’t yet have any ready answers. Right now it’s just important that we’re asking the question and starting to move forward, establish goals and build vocabulary.
There was a section where they discussed a spectrum of alignment between company and design system team, and that you can have situations where their ethical positions are not aligned. I’ve definitely felt this when trying to achieve wider buy-in to accessible practices.
Another interesting topic was the idea of the design system team having the right to refuse certain components, for example because they are inaccessible. I’ve previously been on this battleground with Toggles. And I see that GitHub’s Primer design system recently announced they’ve stopped using Toasts.
I’m interested to see where this conversation ends up.