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Scaling

cross-platform Design System

Component Libraries

Scalable Design

UI KIts

A streamlined design system covering 600+ variant components that embody the brand’s bold identity. Deployed across 5 subsidiaries ensuring consistent visual language for 20+ products and services.

My Roles

UI Libraries, Interaction Design, Governance, Deployment, Workshops, Design Documentation.

Time

2021, 6 Months

Goals

Unify the company wide design practices and elements across to enhance consistency, improve user experience, and accelerate the development process that supports scalability and adaptability across various platforms.

Solution

Develop reusable UI components, well-documented design guidelines, and clear usage specifications; integrated with a collaborative tool that facilitates easy refinement, real-time updates and feedback loops between designers from different teams as well as developers and other stakeholders.

Highlights

With a dedicated studio team of 6, I led the creation and governance of the design system making it a cohesive skeleton that serves 35.5M+ users on the super-app and additional customers across digital ecosystem of five subsidiaries. This centralized framework, connecting 40+ designers located nation wide, encompasses an extraordinary breadth of components from finance, housing, health to e-commerce divisions.

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Global Components

40+

Remotely connected Design users

35.5M+

Super-app Users

Who Uses These?

Finance

Housing

UPI and Payments

Health

Ecommerce

Partners

Merchants

To support the company's dynamic design teams that work on multiple projects simultaneously, the design system is created to be versatile and adaptable across various platforms. From fundamental atoms to page-level components, the UI elements seamlessly integrate across diverse digital environments, ensuring scalability and consistency in every application.

SaaS Platfroms

B2B Portals

E-commerce Markets

Corporate Portals

Native Apps

Mobile-first Websites

Form Journeys

Third Party Integrations

Cut to the Chase

The Builder Component

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Atomic Design System

Unveiling the Soul

With a 16-year journey, the company has served customers through offline and agent-based models. It boasts a customer base of 57.6M+ and a close-knit network of 133K+ stores.

When establishing a new digital identity in late 2019, the design team embraced a startup-within-a-corporate ethos, meticulously crafting designs that later led to the Design System project in 2021. Prior to it’s deployment, we underwent various rounds of testing both internally and with portions of live users, evaluating nuanced details and comparing UI elements.

Crisp

Journeys that minimize steps and maximize task speed

Bold

Confident and youthful identity with vibrant visual language

Secure

Instills long-term trust regarding users’ data and privacy

Scalable

Fluid and smooth adaptation across a wide array of platforms

competent

Embodies the expertise of the leading NBFC in India

The target audience spans from young adults of 22 years to senior citizens aged 65 years and above, with the majority falling within the age range of 42 to 54 years.

Breaking the mold

Designers

Executives

Previous process | Business Driven Projects

The Gap

Dev library

Broken down

UI elements

Designs

UI and Prototypes

Design process

Handover

Developers

Live Product

The Gap

The deployment of the design system encountered several hurdles in achieving cross-functional adoption. Previously, developers created live sites directly, relying on their CSS and CMS libraries. Design files and prototypes were fluid references rather than concrete blueprints, leading to significant disparities between the envisioned and live products.

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Bridged this gap between designers and developers, we integrated elements from dev libraries and live products into the new design system. This not only enhanced cross-functional collaboration, but also streamlined the processes minimizing inconsistencies.

Weaving the Threads

Previously, UI elements varied across platforms, leading to inconsistency. For instance, a transaction display table on a SaaS platform differed from a history table on the Super-App due to backend disparities.

Multiple design teams operated independently without an organizational hierarchy, each defining their own separate design systems.

Partners Project

Previous dynamics | Plum-pudding model

Merchants Project

Wallets Team

Designer B1

Designer B3

Designer B2

Project WIP

Wallets DSM

Housing Team

Designer A1

Designer A2

Project Live

No DSM

SuperApp Project

Live Testing

Design System 1

Payments Team

To address this, we formed a core design team, where I played a key role, ensuring alignment of design standards across projects. We adopted a unified "One for all" approach, establishing a centralized system with clear guidelines for fundamental elements.

This succeeded with the development of platform-specific guidelines and interactive variants, aided with continuous updates and refinements through collaboration with peripheral design teams.

New dynamics | Nuclear Atomic Model

Designer 2

Designer 1

Designer 3

The Design System

Core Design Team

Quality Check

Library

Designer B1

Designer B2

Designer C1

Designer A1

Designer A2

Designer D1

Designer D2

Designer D3

After establishing the libraries, we fostered autonomy in collaboration through workshops and weekly design sessions. The design system not only decreased dependency but also instilled shared ownership among peripheral design teams, fostering a vibrant design community and enhancing creative communication.

The Main Dish

Condensed into 6 comprehensive kits, the design system boasts a swift exponential learning curve. With context-based hierarchy, designers can effortlessly determine the appropriate usage of each element.

Style Kit