Product Designer, UX Designer and Web Designer | Figma pro and evangelist | Efficiency expert | Lover of design.
Seeing inconsistency from your design team or sluggish turn around times? Your design system might be to blame. Your design system should be chock full of design artifacts to keep your design consistent and under control, but those same artifacts could be the hinderance to your team. You need to add a layer of modular, flexible, reusable and repeatable components to your design system. These components will allow each member of your team to drop them into their layouts, make minor edits (via the property panel in figma) and rapidly create and prototype new layouts with pinpoint accuracy and consistency. For extra points prototype the interactions of each of these modular components within your design system to really speed things up. #figma #designsystem #uxdesign #uidesign #ux #ui
Product/UX Design Leadership | ex-Disney
3moA mature design system can indeed increase the speed at which you might be able to design and deliver with an engineering team, but a design system by itself does not address consistent user patterns. In fact, a fully integrated platform with multiple applications utilizing a design system for every feature and component, might actually vary wildly in how a user accomplishes the same task within the features of said platform, which adds to confusion and mistrust. The key would be to integrate a mature design system with a mature user behavior pattern library for any given platform. A design system only solves for 50% of the consistency question.