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To align your UI with a design system, you replace hard-coded styles with design tokens and adopt standard system components. This normalization process maps typography, color, and spacing to ensure visual consistency across all pages and features.

UI normalization in a component library is the process of identifying style deviations and replacing them with standard design tokens. It ensures that typography, spacing, and component usage match your organization's established design patterns to reduce UI drift.

You replace hard-coded values with design tokens by creating a normalization plan that maps existing styles to your design system's documentation. This involves updating typography, color, and spacing across features to enforce accessibility and responsive behavior.

Yes, you need design system documentation, tokens, and code patterns to normalize your UI effectively. These prerequisites provide the reference standards required to identify deviations, map existing styles, and apply consistent component usage across features.

The best way to fix UI drift is to perform a design system normalization by comparing your current components against established tokens and patterns. This creates a structured plan to replace non-token styles and adopt the system component library consistently.

Normalizing UI components enforces accessibility and responsive behavior by aligning features with the design system. Adopting standard tokens and system components ensures that typography, color, and spacing meet organizational accessibility standards across all devices.