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Design System Audit Checklist

A guide for periodically reviewing the health, consistency, and adoption of your design system.

1. Component Inventory

Component Coverage

Are there common UI patterns in the product that are not yet components in the system?

Component Consistency

Are existing components used consistently across different features? Are there any "snowflake" variations?

2. Token & Style Health

Color Usage

Are developers using color tokens, or are there hard-coded hex values in the codebase?

Typography & Spacing

Are text styles and spacing tokens being applied correctly? Check for overrides.

3. Documentation & Adoption

Documentation Clarity

Is the documentation for each component clear? Does it include usage guidelines, do's, and don'ts?

Team Feedback

Have you surveyed the design and development teams to identify pain points or missing features in the system?