Pattern Language
Long before design systems, architects, software developers and HCI researched collected 'design patterns' and pattern languages as a form of sharing knowledge and solutions to problems in useful way.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/347642.347795 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_theory https://www.brown.edu/research/projects/pattern-theory/ https://archive.curbed.com/2019/7/11/20686495/pattern-language-christopher-alexander
https://www.scrumbook.org/ describes scrum as a team patterns