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Slack Engineering·Sep 12, 2019·7 min read58

The Gradual Design System: How We Built Slack Kit

This post was co-written with Zack Sultan, Lead Product Designer at Slack In 2016, Slack was two years old and already used by millions of people. Our codebase had grown rapidly, and like many companies that focused on product/market fit, our code was built in a way that favored time-to-market over maintainability, consistency, or reusability. We…

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