<aside> 💡 This Design System was designed & built from scratch for an organization and then scaled across their products. To comply with NDA, I have edited and replaced some parts of the images and components.

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About Project / Project Overview

Design System at Sikka Software was one of my first & main project. Being the Lead Designer on the project, I was responsible for the planning & strategizing the components & how to scale the design system across the entire platform & all Sikka products to achieve the coherence between the brand language. I worked with one other designer & my manager within the team.

Before starting out with the building of Design System Components, we conducted analysis of all the current products in the organization & picked out the unique components which were used.

Problem that we were looking to solve

• There was no single source of design components & elements libraries for the designers to use.
• There was no consistency & cohesiveness among the products. Every product’s UI looked like it belonged to a different brand family.
• Lot of time of the team members was wasted in going back & forth by changing the UI design of components.

My Roles Responsibilities

• Lead Product Designer
• Create a plan & strategize a way to create components
• Demo other team members how to use the design system elements
• Mockup the cohesive design system elements across all the products

Our Figma boards looked somewhat like this: Chaotic! 😶

Goals & Impact

• Increased consistency & achieve cohesiveness across the platform and make the interface easy to comprehend for the audiences.
• To reduce the time of the team members by saving number of calls / meetings with the developers.
• The design audits were simpler & effective which saved significant time.
• To have a properly documented and validated source of design components, their variations & elements increased efficiency.
• To give a entire new face to the brand with modern design / old looking design.

My Process

Diving Head First: Strategizing & Planning w/ other designer

• I first chalked out the component list that we needed to build. Strategizing & building approach helped to keep our efforts in a structured way. I distributed the components amongst myself & the other designer, this way we could achieve our goals with a focused team work.

Strategizing the components with regards to which properties has to be included