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β€” Shaun Bent, Spotify / Source (YouTube)

Invite users to contribute to further develop the design system and keep it alive.

Collaboration

Document everything

Existence criteria

Celebrate contributions! πŸŽ‰

Everytime people make contributions, Shopify puts it in their newsletter.

β€” Yesenia Perez-Cruz, Shopify / Source (YouTube)

β€” Yesenia Perez-Cruz, Shopify / Source (YouTube)

Make it easy

Contributing to the design system should be as easy as using it.

β€” Raphael Guilleminot and Matt Vagni, Deliveroo / Source (YouTube)

Grow advocates

We realized that ultimately for our systems to succeed long-term, they needed to be thought of as everyone’s responsibility.

β€” Magera Moon, Etsy / Source (Medium)

Guidelines

Airbnb

As part of the contribution process designers volunteer an hour a week to review components for other designers.

β€” Hayley Hughes, Airbnb / Source (YouTube)

β€” Hayley Hughes, Airbnb / Source (YouTube)

GOV.UK

Check out their simple and understandable contribution guidelines:

  1. Check the community backlog
  2. Raise an issue