🔎Measuring What Matters: How to Prove Your Design System’s Business Impact

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You wouldn’t ship an API without tracking performance, so why do design systems often rely on gut feelings? Backend has response times — frontend needs real UX metrics. If you’re only measuring adoption and surveys, your design system is flying blind. Let’s talk about real, quantifiable ways to measure UI usability and prove its business value.

Without User Data Design System Is Blind

Backend has it easier. They can measure API response time. But what about frontend? How to measure progress of company’s component libraries?

Jules Mahe wrote “Tracking adoption is an essential metric for assessing the success of a design system.”. On other hand Zack Lynn-Philipps proposes that if a design system is used in a company “you can start to dive deeper into how it’s being used.”

Majority of design system experts state that measuring design system success can be done with adoption stats and developer satisfaction. It is important, because you want to know if people in your company, and many teams…