What is design system drift, and how do you catch it early?
Design system drift is the slow gap between your system and what ships. The five places it starts, how to spot each one, and how a small team keeps it away.
Felipe Linares
Product designer with 15+ years in SaaS products and design ops. Founder of Fenly.
Felipe has spent most of his career designing SaaS products and the design systems behind them, and running the design ops that keep those systems in use. He's building Fenly, a design system manager for small teams, where Pluto, Fenly's AI agent, drafts the changes and a person approves them.
He writes here about the craft of keeping design systems alive on small teams, and about the decisions behind Fenly. Early teams talk to him directly: write to him.
Portfolio: flinbu.co