Why there was a need to create a design system?

• Two-month deadline drove efficient processes and team collaboration for uniformity across three products.
• Maintaining consistency with diverse product requirements using a centralized design system.
• Design system expedites decision-making, ensures standardized components, and empowers client customization while upholding brand integrity.
• Focus on delivering high-quality products within tight timeframe to lay foundation for future digital design innovation and growth.

Challenges

As a designer creating a design system, some of the challenges i faced includes:

<aside> 📌 Challenges we had before starting the project

• Design system creation
• Short timeline of 2 months
• To identify components as per our requirement </aside>

<aside> 📌 Challenges I faced while working on the design system

• Managing conflicting priorities
• Balancing consistency and flexibility
• Managing change
• Measuring success </aside>

<aside> 🎯 Our goal was to create the entire design in two months and ship it.

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Collaboration & My Role

Worked closely with a Design lead and Developers to turn designs into reusable products using Figma as the primary design tool.

I was the catalyst for the team who couldn’t rest until things were perfect.

Led the research effort & overall making of components

<aside> 🎩 My Role as UX/UI designer.

I was working on choosing the right typeface , find our visual language by creating a centralised color palette (light / dark mode) & testing the color in the components to determine whether WCGA guidelines are being followed or not. Also creation of components & maintaining the component library.

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