Where you put your design system team with your organisation determines how they think, what they build, and whether the system stays a platform or the teams become a UI feature factory.

Sometimes decisions are made for you. They're clearly wrong, and you can't change them. This is about how you lead anyway.

Why do federated design systems keep failing? I watched it happen twice at Spotify. Here's what actually happened, where they broke down, and why centralised models usually work better.