Priya Nair

A design system isn’t a component library. The library is the easy 20%. The system is the 80% of decisions — spacing scale, tone of voice, when NOT to use a modal — that stop five people rebuilding the same button five ways.

Warm neutrals + a single accent is a constraint that makes a hundred later decisions for you. The moment you allow a second accent “just here”, you’ve signed up to defend that exception forever.