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What is Product Craft in the Age of AI and Design Systems?
Design system teams set a quality floor through components and standards, but the actual quality ceiling depends on how product teams choose to use those tools. Raising quality faster requires "craft"—a human trait rooted in care—rather than just stricter gates or better assets, and both teams must develop it independently while collaborating. A recurring loop emerges: co-defining quality, crafting toward it, evaluating results, and feeding successes back into the system, which gradually raises both the floor and ceiling over time.
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