Startup chaos needs order

[Kessedy]

Our dev team just grew from 4 to 20 people in under a year, and now our UI looks like a Frankenstein’s monster after a hackathon. I’m trying to convince the founders we need an enterprise design system to stop the madness. Any battle-tested options you’ve seen actually scale well for fast-moving teams?

[Jordison]

My last gig ballooned from a scrappy 5-person squad to 18 in under 10 months, and our UI ended up looking like five different startups mashed together. We spent more time arguing about button styles than shipping features. What finally saved us was adopting a proper design system early — not just components, but clear processes and ownership. This piece nails it: https://www.maticdigital.com/insight...ss-and-success — it’s people and process as much as tech.