Design System Metrics

While Designers or Engineers might be implementing your system and saying they like it, they might still be customizing or detaching components *sigh*.

Here are some of the ways I’ve tracked systems (quarterly) in the past.

Qualitative

  • General support requests
  • Visitors/requests to pair in office hours
  • Quarterly survey NPS score (tip — ask the same question to generate a meaningful benchmark)
  • Number of meaningful and minor contributions to your system
  • Number of contributors (people) to your system

Quantitative

  • Number of teams/projects using your design library
  • Design component insertions
  • Design component detachments
  • Github teams/project pulls to your system
  • Github unique component adoptions