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Here is a design system. While beautifully on-brand, as you click in, you get all the way to literal cut and paste code:

- Overview: https://adele.uxpin.com/audi-audi-ui

- The system: https://www.audi.com/ci/en/renewed-brand.html

Some less brand-y examples:

- https://polaris.shopify.com/patterns/app-settings-layout

- https://ux.mailchimp.com/patterns/color

- https://designsystem.digital.gov/design-tokens/

Frameworks or component libraries like Tailwind or Material, are not design systems.

Therefore, when you say you plan to integrate open source design systems, this should not mean frameworks or component libraries. It should mean design system systems, such as:

- https://storybook.js.org/

This, on transforming component libraries into design systems, is worth reading:

Design Systems for Developers - A guide that teaches professional developers how to transform component libraries into design systems and set up the production infrastructure used by leading frontend teams:

https://storybook.js.org/tutorials/design-systems-for-develo...

There's a huge need to fill the gap for design systems that "implement themselves" in the transition from wireframe to code. Hopefully you can vector to align with actual design systems instead of components/frameworks. Serving companies with real design system needs is how you get the enterprise ecosystem revenue to get bought by Adobe for $20B in cash and stock!

// Disclosure: Was co-founder and CTO of a top 5 digital (web design) agency, am enterprise customer of today's design agencies.



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