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Foundations, Playbook, Frameworks, DesignOps — plus the AI-ready track. Pick the one that matches today’s question.
Read them in order the first time. After that, jump straight to the surface you need.
01 · The primitives
Color, type, spacing, motion, accessibility and voice, each calibrated so components compose without negotiation.
The scales, with the reasoning that survives a rebrand.
Duration, easing, and when stillness is correct.
Where your system is, and what moves it to the next stage.
02 · How to build it
Eight chapters sequenced from Day 1 to Day 90, with a Migrate track for products already in flight.
The smallest set of decisions to lock in week one.
The spine first, then composition under real product work.
The handoff from building the system to running it.
03 · How to organize it
Centralized, federated, hybrid, distributed — the topology sets what your system can deliver before any code does.
And the consistency–autonomy axis they trade along.
When to formalize, and what breaks if you wait.
Contribution models that survive contact with deadlines.
04 · How to run it
Four operating tracks (workflows, adoption, tooling, measurement) decide whether the system gets used or ignored.
Where systems stall in the funnel, and how to restart each stage.
Release cycles that keep product teams unblocked.
Measurement beyond a component-usage vanity number.
05 · How to ship it for agents
Tokens, components and docs that Cursor, Claude Code and v0 can read, plus the independent index that benchmarks the field.
Tokens, naming and docs, in the order agents resolve them.
The queryable surface a docs site can't provide.
37 public systems scored on five signals, evidence attached.
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Foundations · rebuilt
The four jobs of motion, the motion budget, choreography, and reduced-motion accessibility.
Read itPlaybook · 90 days
Eight chapters mapped to a 90-day path, with three time-budget entry points.
Read itDesignOps · diagnostic
Six reasons it stalls, the funnel that shows where, four moves that work.
Read it120 real systems with engineering-facet filters, and the AI-ready hub for the 2026 wedge — MCP, W3C Design Tokens, components agents can use.
