— 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! 🎉

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

— Yesenia Perez-Cruz, Shopify / Source (YouTube)

— Yesenia Perez-Cruz, Shopify / Source (YouTube)

Make it easy

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

— 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.

— 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.

— Hayley Hughes, Airbnb / Source (YouTube)

— Hayley Hughes, Airbnb / Source (YouTube)

GOV.UK

Check out their simple and understandable contribution guidelines:

  1. Check the community backlog
  2. Raise an issue