Design System··5 min read
Building an internal product for prototyping
How Barte's design team built its own prototyping environment, in code, with the Design System, comments and usability tests.
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How Barte's design team built its own prototyping environment, in code, with the Design System, comments and usability tests.
How Barte uses explicit engineering principles to scale decisions without scaling control — and how they connect to paved road, tests, and AI.
How we built Lastro, Barte's design system, with an AI-first approach — the decisions, trade-offs and lessons we learned along the way.
AI made generating code cheap. Trusting the changes became the bottleneck — and a solid test suite is what sustains that trust.
Writing every line was what made knowledge stick. How to keep truly understanding the systems we maintain in the age of AI.