the fundamental role of design systems is connecting things. at a company, one team might be working on something, and another team is working on the same thing. the design system team should be working with the product teams to connect them. we should be asking, how can we help product teams solve their problems? product teams don’t care about adoption. but if we can adopt their goals, we will get our goals. we act as facilitators, to make their work easier. (paraphrased from something dan mall said in a design systems twitter space)