Optmyzr · 2024–2026
A design system that answers back
- Role
- Principal design manager
- Team
- [ADD TEAM SIZE]
- Timeline
- 2024–2026
- Outcome
- Audits are shrinking and designers are designing again. [ADD ONE NUMBER]
Context
The same grey was defined six or seven ways across the codebase. Fit-and-finish audits ran for days.
[ADD CONTEXT: product, team and constraints]The bet
Tokens as one source of truth, a component registry, and an MCP server that engineers and AI agents query from their editor.
The long-form write-up is on Muzli: I built a design system that talks back. Here's how.
Tradeoff
[ADD TRADEOFF]Outcome
Audits are shrinking and designers are designing again. [ADD ONE NUMBER]