The Gradual Design System: How We Built Slack Kit

1 · Slack · Sept. 12, 2019, 4:17 p.m.
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 never encountered a single breaking point in our user interface, but rather a slowly cascading series of inconsistencies, quirks, and discrepancies. Our internal product teams were growing to match the momentum of the business...