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Stop overcomplicating your design systems. š
You really don't need a hyper-complex setup with dozens of brand modes just to get a project off the ground. In reality, it just turns into a technical nightmare.
A clean, white-label asset starting point in Figma is all you actually need. Build a solid, modular base, keep your components flexible, and stop wasting hours designing for edge cases that literally no user will ever see.
Good design isn't about flexing how many variables you can string together. It's about moving fast, keeping the architecture scalable, and shipping interfaces that actually work.
Keep it simple and ship it.
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