Originally published at https://blog.joonquixote.com/en/posts/the-story-of-my-failed-design-system/ . There are plenty of articles about design systems. Many organizations have shared stories about adopting them in practice, and there is no shortage of conference talks and articles about designing tokens. What is harder to find are stories about design systems that were built but never made it any further. I looked for examples like that while working on one myself, but found very fe...