What it is
A design system is a shared set of components, colors, and type for your products. It gives designers and developers one source of truth to work from. With themes, a single system can serve several brands.
Signs you need one
The same button looks different on every page. New features take longer than they should because each screen starts from scratch. Several products or teams share a brand and are drifting apart. A design system fixes the root cause instead of patching each screen.
Typical projects
Some of the design system work we're asked to do:
- Component libraries built with web components
- Design tokens and themes
- Accessibility and localization built in
- Documentation sites for your team
How we approach it
We begin with an audit of the screens and components you already have. The components used most often get built first, so the system pays off early.
We test accessibility as each component is built rather than at the end. When the system is ready, we publish it as a package that every project can install.
Related
- use-wc, our own component library
- WordPress theme & plugin development