I was fortunate enough to speak alongside the amazing Maja Wichrowska at React Conf 2019, hosted by Facebook. We present the journey that the Airbnb Design System (aka DLS) went through over the years and the evolution that made it what it is now. Please enjoy :)
Building (and re-building) the Airbnb Design System
When building a design system, many implicit choices are made in a component’s architecture that can end up crushing the dreams of a productivity-boosting frontend utility and turning a shared component library into a vessel for friction, factions, and forking. Join us as we take you through the journey of Airbnb’s experience creating an effective, widely-adopted design system and the decisions and trade-offs that were made to get there.
