Design systems: accounting for quality and scalability
- 1. “
John Maeda
Design in Tech Report
‘Scale’ a company’s design
function through better
managing/leading of
designers and shareable
design systems
- 2. Accounting for Quantity and Scalability
Amy Vainieri & Courtney Clark
UX at Scale Virtual Summit | October 5, 2017
#DesignSystems
Design Systems
- 18. Entire Project = 8 months
Discovery = 2 months
UX & Design = 3-4 months
Front & Back Dev = 3-4 months
- 19. Project Manager (x2)
UX Designer (x2)
Content Strategist
Visual Designer
Back-End Developer (x5+)
Front-End Developer (x2+)
Project
Team
- 20. Product Owners (x2)
Executive Director
Communications Staff (x10)
Developers (x2)
Analyst
Content Authors (x200!)
Located in 60 countries
across 15 programs
Client
- 43. 1. What already exists?
2. What is the significance?
3. How will it be used again
in the future?
Ask:
- 45. It was vital to understand
the genesis of the design
system. After that, it was
easy peasy to maintain
and extend the system.
“
Sarah Coles
Designer Extraordinaire
- 50. This design system has
made my life rainbows
and unicorns.
“Dan Mouyard
Front-End Developer Extraordinaire
- 54. “
John Maeda
Design in Tech Report
‘Scale’ a company’s design
function through better
managing/leading of
designers and shareable
design systems