If a design system is a product, inbound requests from the developers is direct customer feedback.
Why and when fund a design system team in the first place?
Can we work together, after all?
Like with any product, it’s the audience’s success and growth that define success of what you’re building.
If we’re building a plane while we’re flying it, building a UI library is like building wings and fuselage before putting them together, but they must also fit all other planes.