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Design system strategy and planning

Getting a design system started and keeping it thriving can be a daunting challenge. Selling to stakeholders. Growing a team. Deliver consistently. Evolve and helping teams change over time. It can be complicated, risky and even exhausting at times.

We can help you navigate these challenges to set up your design system for success. We've seen the patterns, shared the stories, and aligned stakeholders so that your teams can deliver, implement with and evolve a system over time.

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Strategy and planning

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Strategy and planning

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Strategy and planning

Starting a system from scratch? Aligning stakeholders to shared vision and purpose? Charting a course to deliver a redesign? Forming a team to get the work done and measure its success?

We help you navigate stakeholders to form a design system team and deliver breakthrough and incremental value over time.

Resources

The arc to start a system: set a strategy, launch a first release, and operate regularly to foster adoption and community

Medium.com

Models and Lessons Learned to Scale a Team for an Enterprise

Medium.com

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Roadmapping

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Roadmapping

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Roadmapping

Beyond the next component, where is your design system going?

We can help you solicit and prioritize needs, identify big bets to make, and deliver library features and capabilities over time.

Resources

An entire library is in play to be made, delivered, and implemented (again) across adopters that upgrade immediately, sooner or later.

Medium.com

A talk by Jules Forrest of Credit Karma on roadmapping that was supported by office hours and async consulting with Nathan.

Youtube.com • Figma Schema 2022 NY

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Operations and process

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Operations and process

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Operations and process

Is your design system process working well? Do you crank out features like a well-oiled machine? Does everyone know their role, makers and contributors alike?

We can work with you to install ways-of-working as we have taught thousands of designers, engineers and teams for over 20 years.

Resources

Comparing workflows to understand the extra effort needed to deliver high-quality features that serve many teams.

Medium.com

Understand what types of incidents occur, in what channels they arise, and who’s responsible to manage and resolve each one.

Medium.com

Target your audiences, channels, and messages with a communications strategy to release features and manage change.

Medium.com

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Assessment

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Assessment

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Assessment

Your design system is chugging along, releasing features. Adopters seem happy. But is the system healthy? Are you working on the right things? Do you all agree?

We'll inform your roadmap using heuristic-based workshops, alignment sessions, and recommendations so you can forward.

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Ready to get started?

Ready to get started?

Let's connect to discuss your project's goals, scope and approach.

Directed Edges LLC

12805 Misty Creek Ln

Fairfax, VA 22033


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Directed Edges LLC

12805 Misty Creek Ln

Fairfax, VA 22033


Twitter • LinkedIn • Email

Directed Edges LLC

12805 Misty Creek Ln

Fairfax, VA 22033


Twitter • LinkedIn • Email