Design system philosophy
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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ cites: - doctrine-38 --- The PointSav design system is a self-hosted, customer-owned substrate for managing design tokens, components, and design-decision research. It addresses four structural gaps in the 2026 design-system landscape — the absence of machine-readable design rationale, enterprise-tier pricing that excludes small and medium businesses (SMBs), editor lock-in, and insufficient AI-consumable structure — through three architectural inversions of the dominant platform model. The PointSav [[design-system-substrate|design system]] is a self-hosted, customer-owned substrate for managing design tokens, components, and design-decision research. It addresses four structural gaps in the 2026 design-system landscape — the absence of machine-readable design rationale, enterprise-tier pricing that excludes small and medium businesses (SMBs), editor lock-in, and insufficient AI-consumable structure — through three architectural inversions of the dominant platform model. The token vocabulary is documented in [[design-primitive-vocabulary]]; the wiki rendering surface built on this substrate is served by [[app-mediakit-knowledge]]. ## Why the substrate exists @@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ The well-structured substrate IS the message the SMB sends to its implementation - Editor lock-in (single-editor-only features rejected). - Marketing vocabulary in research files (research files describe structural rationale, not product positioning). ## See also - [[design-primitive-vocabulary]] — the token vocabulary layer: numeric color scales, semantic aliasing, and PointSav-original naming rationale - [[design-system-substrate]] — the substrate architecture: Git-tracked vault, MCP endpoint, and multi-tenant override structure - [[wiki-component-library]] — nine wiki components built on this token system - [[app-mediakit-knowledge]] — the wiki engine that renders the design system's public showcase surface ## References - W3C Design Tokens Community Group format — https://design-tokens.github.io/community-group/format/