Approaching Design System as a Part of Your Organisation

“It is better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right.”
Russell Ackoff

During Helsinki Design Systems meetup, I was asked if there were any tips on how a designer could start a design system project when there seemed to be no initiative from the upper management. This question deeply resonated with me, as my role in this endeavour was never to build a design system itself, for that I had a better equipped colleague, but to figure out how to integrate it into the rest of organisation with our…