Design SystemUI DesignPrototyping

Design System

RoleDesign Systems Lead

CompanyCoderhouse

Duration6 months

Year2023

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The challenge

Six product teams were maintaining their own component libraries, leading to visual inconsistencies and duplicated effort. A unified system was needed without disrupting live products.

6Teams aligned

120+Components

50 %Faster handoff

1Source of truth

Token architecture

Built a three-tier token system (primitive → semantic → component) that allowed theming across products while maintaining a single Figma library.

Adoption strategy

Ran bi-weekly office hours, wrote thorough documentation, and embedded a 'design system champion' in each squad. Adoption reached 80 % within 3 months.

Component library

Design system component library

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