Design Systems Quarterly/2023
Decoupling Presentation from State: Slot-Based Composition in Enterprise Design Systems
Architectural patterns for scalable component libraries that preserve structural invariants while granting downstream product teams granular rendering flexibility.
Monolithic UI components that attempt to support every edge-case variant via Boolean properties inevitably collapse under combinatorial complexity. This whitepaper introduces slot composition architectures for enterprise component libraries.
By structuring components into structural frame parents and interchangeable content children, design system teams reduced component maintenance tickets by 62% across 14 enterprise product squads.
KEY INSIGHT:
Great design systems do not provide rigid answers; they provide expressive grammar.
VENUE / JOURNALDesign Systems Quarterly
YEAR2023
DOI IDENTIFIER10.5281/zenodo.8392014
RESEARCH TOPICS
Component ArchitectureDesign SystemsSlot CompositionFigma Variables
