Style guides are a brilliant idea, however they are usually woefully executed in practice. The idea is that at any point in time there is a working document visible to the project team that captures the look and feel of core components – and this includes typography, buttons and form fields. What actually happens though is that the working document becomes stale and discarded by most of the project team, and that’s because it captures the look and feel of the project from two months ago.
An out-of-date working document is pretty useless because the project team can’t use it for anything they’re working on at that moment – it simply gathers dust, becoming a relic.
There are probably many reasons for stale style guides, but the biggest standout is…
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