The Bottom Line of Design Systems: What Changan Got Right by Avoiding 'Battery Lock'

I sat at my desk, agonizing over a button in Figma that had a spacing deviation of just 1 pixel for twenty minutes. A colleague walked by and said I had "design OCD." I smiled and didn't argue. Actually, in my mind, this isn't just OCD; it's a belief in system stability—any pixel shift could trigger a chain reaction of breakdowns in some downstream interface.