Rethinking monorepo architecture

Accessibility isn't a checklist. It's a design constraint that, handled early, makes every decision more intentional.

The Setup

Monorepos aren't for everyone, but if you're shipping a design system alongside multiple products, the tooling overhead pays off quickly in DX consistency.

We start every engagement with a two-hour discovery session — not to gather requirements, but to pressure-test assumptions. Nine times out of ten, the stated problem and the real problem are different.

Going Forward

Component APIs are contracts. Breaking changes have downstream consequences that ripple through teams and timelines. Versioning is not optional once you're at scale.

• Dark mode is not just a color flip. Shadows, elevations, and image contrast all need rethinking. Done lazily, dark mode makes a product look unfinished.
• Lighthouse scores matter, but they're a proxy. Real performance work means profiling on mid-tier Android hardware on a throttled connection — not a MacBook on broadband.

The teams that move fastest are rarely the ones with the most resources. They're the ones with the clearest shared understanding of what done looks like.