Creating A Consistent User Experience Through Pattern Libraries
A design system serves as a single source of truth, housing reusable components, styles, and guidelines to ensure a cohesive user experience across your product ecosystem. It accelerates design and development cycles, promotes brand consistency, enhances user experience, and fosters collaboration among cross-functional teams.
We help you assess, adopt, or build a custom design system that delivers key benefits: speeding up workflows by reducing repetitive tasks, ensuring brand trust through consistent experiences, aligning teams for seamless collaboration, and enabling scalable growth with reusable components and best practices.
I lean towards focusing on clear design requirements rather than just visual appeal. It's more expensive to misinterpret requirements than to simply spruce up the aesthetics.
Dheeraj Khindri
Director, Experience Design Services, Axelerant
The Axelerant Approach
We use the double diamond model to create or enhance design systems that deliver consistent and scalable outcomes.
Building a new design system is ideal for new products or companies needing a design overhaul. We begin with research and benchmarking successful design systems in your industry, followed by defining core principles that establish your brand's identity. We develop a component library of reusable UI elements and create a style guide detailing color, typography, tone, and accessibility standards. Investing in the right tools for component management and version control is crucial.
Updating or upgrading an existing design system focuses on refining your design language. We conduct an audit to assess current assets and identify inconsistencies, followed by prioritizing frequently used components. We centralize assets, create comprehensive documentation, and train your team on updates to ensure smooth implementation and gather feedback for continuous improvement.
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