Measuring design system adoption and health
WHAT IT TESTS: quantifying adoption with concrete, automatable metrics. OUTLINE: component coverage and version spread from code scans, usage analytics, issue and satisfaction signals.
WHAT IT TESTS: whether you can instrument adoption rather than assert it. ANSWER OUTLINE: track component adoption rate (share of UI built from system components versus custom), version distribution across consumers, detached or overridden instances, and coverage of tokens; gather via static code analysis across repos, registry download stats, runtime usage telemetry, and tools like component analytics dashboards; complement with issue volume, time-to-resolution, and consumer satisfaction surveys.
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