Design Systems for Enterprise Applications: Consistency as Infrastructure

Consistency across modules built years apart by different teams, accessibility solved once, and feature velocity rising as the component coverage grows — infrastructure economics, not aesthetics.

Ownership named, contribution process defined, drift audited — unmaintained systems decay into the inconsistency they were built to prevent.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.