These building blocks help form more complex components. They are used the most and any changes to them used to mean an egregious amount of time doing rework. As a component, one republish reverberates across the entire system.
The atoms form these components, which are made up of different elements to create one entity, like the resource card below. Designing them within a system also allows us to design their different states, which helps with prototyping down the line.
When molecules and atoms combine, they create organisms. These are modules that make up large sections of a page—the main content. Together, they help create templated pages that we can reuse in form or structure.