Brand & design · Planning worksheet

Design-system adoption: help teams use the library

Illustrative situation

Teams ignore the component library because its examples do not match their actual work.

The decision

Provide practical examples, clear contribution routes and support for legitimate gaps. Measure adoption through useful reuse rather than counting the number of components published.

Rehearse this before accepting the change

Ask a new team member to assemble a fictional service form from the guidance.

Use fictional examples and an authorised test environment. Record what happened, the evidence you inspected and any issue that still needs a responsible owner.

Choose a useful measure

Track repeated workarounds and unresolved component requests.

Agree the definition and baseline with the team doing the work. Review the result over a comparable period and note other changes that could affect it.

Your planning worksheet

Use these checks to prepare a discussion with your team or supplier. Tick a check when you have recorded the decision or evidence, rather than when a feature has simply been promised.

Decisions to record

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