Design systems should be framed as platform infrastructure, not feature delivery, requiring different organizational structures¶
Insight: Design systems should be framed as infrastructure solving 'platform problems' rather than feature delivery. This framing requires different organizational structures and success metrics. As AI adoption increases, design systems become more valuable as context layers; documentation and human judgment emerge as critical differentiators over automation capabilities.
Detail: Teams adopting this platform mindset focus on team composition with stronger engineering representation to handle infrastructure complexity. Automated code generation risks creating understanding gaps; design systems provide mitigating context for AI-generated UI by encoding human judgment at scale.