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DSML (Design System Markup Language)

XML-based markup the team developed to describe Figma design structure, evolved from an earlier internal tree representation called DST and used as input to a JSX generator.

Known aliases

Design Syntax Tree
Design System Markup Language

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 distinct publisher

Two and a half years of design system work ended with one adopting team

A retrospective on two and a half years of Lit Web Components, a custom element registry collision and a Figma-to-code pipeline shows how much careful engineering an unowned adoption problem can absorb.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption12
Hype gap−18
Incentives34