Most design systems start as a collection of buttons, inputs, tokens, and reusable patterns, but teams quickly discover that components alone do not solve the real friction between design and engineering. Figma drifts from code, documentation gets outdated, ownership becomes unclear, and the system slowly turns into either a bottleneck or a forgotten asset.

This roundtable brings together React Native developers, designers, and product-minded engineers to talk about what makes a design system sustainable in practice: governance, contribution models, release processes, quality checks, and the day-to-day habits that keep adoption easy. The goal is to compare what has worked, what has failed, and what makes a design system feel like product infrastructure instead of just a shared UI kit.

In massive monorepos, slow feedback loops can make even the smallest changes expensive and time-consuming. A simple feature update can trigger long CI pipelines, unrelated test failures, unclear ownership problems, or unexpected breakages among many other issues. As teams and systems grow, the “fail fast” mindset has to be applied to more than just the testing strategy.

This talk explores how feature driven architecture can help teams create faster and more meaningful feedback loops in large monorepos. It will discuss how to create clear feature boundaries, dependency-aware CI, affected builds, caching, architecture checks, and public API rules in order to support the developers catch problems earlier without validating the entire repository on every change.