Design System
Eastdil Secured Savills
At Eastdil Secured Savills, I implemented, optimized, and evangelized the design system, taking it from a set of components to something teams actually used and trusted.
Implement
- Established the system's foundations and component library for the products I supported
- Documented components, patterns, and usage guidance so teams could use them without asking
- Incorporated existing Telerik framework components and tokens
Optimize
- Reviewed the existing components to find friction, duplication, and accessibility gaps
- Refined components based on how designers and developers used them in real projects
- Ensured WCAG 2.2 AA compatibility across all components
Evangelize
- Promoted the system to designers, developers, and stakeholders, showing how it saved them time
- Created clear ways for teams to ask questions, request components, and contribute
Outcomes
- Created a unified design language that all departments could follow
- Improved design-to-dev handoff pipeline which reduced number of send-backs during development
- Encourages creation of Storybook archive for dev components. Received positive feedback from from engineering team in being able to help motivate common components not only on the design side, but the development side
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