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What is a design system audit and when you need one

A design system audit is a structured review of token usage, component drift, accessibility compliance, governance gaps, and adoption rate that reveals where a product's UI has decayed since launch. It produces a ranked list of fixes, a layer-level compliance score, and a repair roadmap with owners, dates, and order of operations.

Apr 18, 202612 min read