Balancing Design Standards & Innovation

How do we as designers find a good balance between following standards vs creating the standards. By now we're all working towards creating a design system that works for our applications. We want a system that works for all scenarios that we can use as building blocks for our designs. This allows us to focus on solving the more important problems.

How do we balance following a globally adopted design pattern while also innovating on uncommon solutions that solve problems in unconventional ways.

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