Designing a design system

Designing a design system

Mia’s app had a brand identity crisis—every new designer introduced a new shade of pink. I created a scalable design system anchored to a single Pantone card, establishing a semantic palette, a unified icon set, and reusable components. The result was a cascading style system that reduced design debt and gave developers a predictable pattern to follow.

Mia’s app had a brand identity crisis—every new designer introduced a new shade of pink. I created a scalable design system anchored to a single Pantone card, establishing a semantic palette, a unified icon set, and reusable components. The result was a cascading style system that reduced design debt and gave developers a predictable pattern to follow.

Mia’s app had a brand identity crisis—every new designer introduced a new shade of pink. I created a scalable design system anchored to a single Pantone card, establishing a semantic palette, a unified icon set, and reusable components. The result was a cascading style system that reduced design debt and gave developers a predictable pattern to follow.

Impact

Impact

Cohesion increased. Rogue components decreased. Design moved faster. My governance process gave teams early visibility into the system, which expanded further when a front-end engineer began translating the visual language into code.

Cohesion increased. Rogue components decreased. Design moved faster. My governance process gave teams early visibility into the system, which expanded further when a front-end engineer began translating the visual language into code.

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Special thanks to Ajay Maurya, Shaunak Chitgopkar, Piyush Biswal, Sushanth Kumar, Shyamala Ramanan

Special thanks to Ajay Maurya, Shaunak Chitgopkar, Piyush Biswal, Sushanth Kumar, Shyamala Ramanan

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