Design System Strategy and Governance Questions

Focuses on creation, maintenance, and governance of design systems and component libraries. Candidates should explain governance models and decision making processes for adding or changing components, maintenance workflows, versioning and release strategies, contribution and review processes, documentation and onboarding, and tooling to support adoption. Discuss balancing standardization with team autonomy, preventing design system rot, handling breaking changes, measuring return on investment and impact, managing stakeholder needs across product and engineering teams, enforcing consistency including accessibility standards, and strategies for scaling and evolving the system over time.