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