A recurring emerging need: design leader ascends into leadership role for enterprise-level design system, needs to lift technical knowledge to make good strategic decisions.

"What must I know? What do I read?"

I don't have a great answer, but...
1/5

Focus on implications of technical architecture (packaging, releasing, framework decision making) more than implementation-specific challenges, and focus on points where people connect.
2/5

Cross Disciplinary Collaboration
How does a system's technical architecture invite participation of system designers and others to share a language (e.g., design tokens) and blend work (e.g., Visual QA environments)?
3/5

Consumption
How does a system's technical architecture package things for reuse (such as a code registry) and enable others to consume and upgrade with confidence (versioning, communicating change, coordinating big generational shifts)?
4/5

Contribution
How does a system invite contribution from the outside, such as shared patterns and places to make things beyond just the core team's way? How vibrant, participatory, and nurtured are those relationships?
5/5