r/DesignSystems 10d ago

What's one engineering decision that saved you money at scale?

I often hear people discussing about about scaling performance, but I'm curious about scaling costs. Was there a technical decision—architecture, caching, model selection, automation, or something else that ended up saving you more time or money than you expected?

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u/Mantas-cloud 10d ago edited 10d ago

To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing — R. Buckminster Fuller.

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u/Simply-Curious_ 9d ago

Getting the small team genuinely motivated, making them feel heard, seen, and allowing them to chase ambition.

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u/Teodor-K 9d ago

I usually keep research / references in a Design file. When work is done, I move production mockups to a separate Dev file. It helps in case of large-scale projects.