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Episode 026 - Atomic Design and OOUX with Brad Frost

The Object-Oriented UX Podcast

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The Relationship Between IKEA Parts and Mountain Dressers

Many design systems are just sort of a bucket of IKEA parts without any rules on how to put it together or a bucket of Lego parts, whatever your metaphor you want to use. And like we have, IKEA has an inventory of these like low level parts, each one of those little components has their own properties to them. But they aren't the ones sort of saying what the mountain dresser should be. It's only really at that level that you're starting to figure out how the stuff hangs together and is orchestrated.

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