{"id":40,"date":"2026-07-17T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/2026\/07\/17\/what-a-design-system-costs-to-keep\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:52:30","slug":"what-a-design-system-costs-to-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/2026\/07\/17\/what-a-design-system-costs-to-keep\/","title":{"rendered":"What a design system costs to keep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building the library is the cheap part. The expensive part is the eighteen months afterwards, when nobody owns it and every new screen quietly forks a component.<\/p>\n<p>What maintenance actually costs, who should own it in a team of twelve, and the smallest version of a system that still earns its keep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building the library is the cheap part. The expensive part is the eighteen months afterwards, when nobody owns it and every new screen quietly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/freelancer-design-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}