30. Design System Review Checklist
Review foundations, tokens, components, engineering, governance, and analytics.
Foundations
- Design principles documented
- Terminology documented
- Brand rules documented
- Accessibility baseline defined
- Responsive strategy defined
Tokens
- Primitive tokens exist
- Semantic tokens exist
- Components avoid raw visual values
- Light/dark themes map semantic roles
- Token naming is stable
- Token output can be consumed programmatically
Typography
- Type scale
- Line height
- Weights
- Responsive rules
- Font-loading strategy
Color
- Primitive palette
- Semantic roles
- Functional states
- Accessible combinations
- Dark mode
Layout
- Spacing scale
- Breakpoints
- Grid
- Containers
- Responsive rules
Components
- API documented
- states documented
- variants documented
- keyboard behavior documented
- screen-reader behavior documented
- responsive behavior documented
- unit/component tests
- accessibility tests
- visual regression tests
- Storybook examples
Engineering
- TypeScript
- linting
- formatting
- CI
- semantic versioning
- changelog
- release automation
- contribution guide
Governance
- ownership defined
- proposal process
- review process
- deprecation policy
- migration policy
- communication channel
Analytics
- adoption metrics
- package-version metrics
- component usage
- error monitoring
- consumer feedback