Roadmap & versioning
A design system feels unstable when teams cannot tell what changed, what broke, and what is safe to adopt.
Ship around decision boundaries
Release when a meaningful decision is complete: a token set, a component family, a pattern or a migration. Avoid releases that bundle unrelated fixes into one hard-to-read event.
Deprecate before removing
Give teams a replacement, a migration path and a date. Mark deprecated items in Figma, code and docs at the same time so nobody discovers the change too late.
Keep the changelog public
The changelog is a trust object. Write in plain language, link to examples, and say who is affected by each change.
A roadmap is not a promise to build everything. It is a promise to make choices visible.
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