What I would love to see in a design system is something in terms of "white-label" components. I'm talking about components with great UX, but basically no styling applied.
I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is possible, and I'm not sure what it would look like -- but I'd love a framework that just makes everything work really nice - except it doesn't force you to do really quirky css hacks to re-style the thing.
Agreed. I'm surprised not to have seen this. It reminds me of the "skeleton" wordpress themes from ~10 years ago. You get a view layer that's marked up and connected/connectable, but that has no styles.
Can't you change the style of a Bootstrap layout without changing the functionality? I thought that is the point of all the different "themes" they have.
I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is possible, and I'm not sure what it would look like -- but I'd love a framework that just makes everything work really nice - except it doesn't force you to do really quirky css hacks to re-style the thing.
If that makes any sense :)