Scaling Design Systems Questions

Addresses principles and practices for growing a design system as products, platforms, and teams expand. Topics include component architecture and composition, design tokens and theming, governance models, contribution workflows, versioning and release strategies, documentation and onboarding, cross platform consistency, trade offs between strictness and flexibility, handling exceptions without bloating the system, automation and tooling, and metrics to measure adoption and health. Candidates should be able to discuss real or hypothetical patterns to prevent system bloat, coordinate multiple product teams, and evolve the system incrementally.