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Zomato's Sushi Design System

Zomato Design · Zomato Free Intermediate India

A behind the scenes look at how an Indian company built consistency into a fast moving product with a shared design system. It shows why consistency, one of Nielsen's heuristics, is an engineering and process problem, not just a taste one. A good read once your product has enough screens that they start to drift apart.

  • Consistency at scale needs reusable components and shared rules
  • A design system speeds up shipping while keeping the UI coherent
  • Simplicity, user centricity, and consistency can be stated as explicit principles

The question it answers

  1. What are the core UX principles every founder should know?

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