// Hacker Noon · 11 February 2026

Design Systems Don’t Die — They Freeze. Here’s the Migration Playbook

Prevent design system permafrost with mechanics: deprecate with deadlines, stop new usage first, codemod adoption, enforce budgets in CI, and remove in majors—while staging behavior/a11y changes safely.

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