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I may be misunderstanding your suggestion. If so, I'm curious to learn what I missed.
As in, you own one? If so, that's awesome! I'd be very interested in learning more.
1. Determine the base requirements.
2. Build the first draft.
3. Determine what parts of the first draft are useful. Capture those in a design guide.
4. Iterate on the parts that were useful but not fully fleshed out.
5. Add refinements to the design guide.
6. Define adjusted and new requirements. Pull in elements from the design guide as applicable, design and build new elements when they don’t exist.
7. Repeat.
(Note: I’m sure I truncated some steps you can fit in the flow)
Design systems are living documentation and a lagged record of solutions that work in context. They are incomplete and will always be missing things but with each subsequent iteration they should continue to evolve and adapt.
The design system moves at a slower velocity than the product development which informs it. This is why the phase layer model works well for me to help describe this iterative process.
This compliments your desire for minimal design upfront and rapid development with engagement and validation with the people who are putting it to use.
Addendum: Added note about layer velocities.
Addendum 2: Fixed a few typos
It may be described as a signals concern but that’s simply window dressing.
This is not to dismiss the concern. I simply wanted to state that artists will find ways to keep moving the creative bar forward.
[0] I really like this turn of phrase, thank you for sharing it.
Special purpose is specific, and therefore not standard. I can produce a web-centric language that excludes <html> but has zero use beyond being a jackkass.
(Postscript: I don’t disagree with your point)
Central Post & Telegraph building is classified as Neo-Baroque[1], while the Harold Washington Library (of significantly later construction) reflects many of the Beaux-Arts[2] forms and ornamentation.
Now, this is much more communal than you posited but if that was happening I have no doubt people were sneaking an article or two while out with friends.
Removing the xenophobia:
“We can’t trust companies for various reasons.”
My original point—-which was likely not worded well—is that the humans which make up “society” need to reach a point where they can recognize that corporations make and follow-through on decisions because they are supported by sign-off from our fellow humans, not because of an abstract corporate mechanism.
Thank you for the sidebar.
This does not mean that I personally feel they aren’t equally reprehensible and bad for society.
My argument can be expanded to the fact that if a “rogue underling” did this without C-level input that leadership at the company is negligent at the least, or attempting to abstract responsibility and hide the issue behind deniability at the worst.
Addendum: I should have picked a better phrase to start with. I agree that the legal process is the correct way to proceed, but once a determination of culpability is made, hiding behind layers of leadership should not be the defacto norm.