> The design system, where once productive FE devs go to die thinking everyone should use it
Genuine questions: is it badly made to the point where it would slow people down, or do you have another reason for disliking it? What's wrong with the government thinking that many of their sites should look and behave in similarly predictable ways, in addition to tackling accessibility as well, at least to a certain degree?
In my eyes, that's not that different to people choosing to go with Bootstrap or PrimeFaces (which actually provides UI components that have versions tailored for Angular, React and Vue, in addition to Java; something that seems cool and that I haven't seen many others actually try to do) because they want something that works out of the box and lets them worry about the forms and page content, instead of as much about how it works.
In other words, do we really need so many bespoke design systems (and all of the work that goes into that), as opposed to fewer but more well made ones?
Your point makes a lot of sense, but then everyone wants that small bit of customization that substantially destroys the whole idea of a design system. Not to mention that while making sense for the government, which might have contractors without even knowing about them, it’s really stupid for small companies (why the hell i want to use randomCo design system?) and it’s just pure vanity.
KronisLV|2 years ago
Genuine questions: is it badly made to the point where it would slow people down, or do you have another reason for disliking it? What's wrong with the government thinking that many of their sites should look and behave in similarly predictable ways, in addition to tackling accessibility as well, at least to a certain degree?
In my eyes, that's not that different to people choosing to go with Bootstrap or PrimeFaces (which actually provides UI components that have versions tailored for Angular, React and Vue, in addition to Java; something that seems cool and that I haven't seen many others actually try to do) because they want something that works out of the box and lets them worry about the forms and page content, instead of as much about how it works.
In other words, do we really need so many bespoke design systems (and all of the work that goes into that), as opposed to fewer but more well made ones?
throwmeout123|2 years ago