Systemize your product and brand with a clear guide
Design systems can be implemented in a variety of ways. At their core, they give your team a guide for consistently building great products.
Increased team velocity
Get rid of the low-hanging fruit on each feature iteration. Focus on solving the real problems rather than what button they should use.
Seamless collaboration
Empower your team to collaborate faster and more clearly. Get more clarity about what things are called and the need to mock everything up.
Consistent UX and UI
Create comprehensive standards for your product, leaving your team to solve more significant issues so your customers know what to expect.
Stop creating technical debt
A design system is one part of the solution to solving most debt issues you’ll find on your product and team.
- Inconsistent UX: Don’t leave key patterns on the table to be defined each iteration.
- Rework: Keep consistent design tokens in your product and remove constant guessing and rework.
- Confusion: Reduce communication breakdowns with a governance model and system guides.
- Design and technical debt: Inconsistent components and patterns creating additional work and maintenance.
How do we go about building a design system?
Our design system process scales according to your product size and needs. We recommend starting with a pilot project.
Phase one
Deep Dive
We'll help you to gain a deep understanding of your product, team, and existing design assets to lay the foundation for an effective design system.
- Onboarding session
- Brand review
- Full product and system walkthrough
- Naming convention planning
- Tooling audit and review
- Governance modeling
- Team interviews
Phase two
Design System Iterations
Iteratively refine and expand your design system, creating a comprehensive set of reusable design elements and documentation to empower your team.
- Design token definition
- Reference site documentation
- Figma system schema
- Coded component library
- Atomic design UI kit creation
Phase three
Action Plan
Implement the design system through a pilot project, establish team workflows, and develop a clear roadmap for future adoption and growth.
- Pilot project rollout
- Team cadence and governance model review
- Action plan for next adoption
Client testimonial
"For our design team, Headway's biggest area of impact was helping with the design system and the transition to Figma. It's increased the foundational elements and lets us operate at a 5-10x velocity. That was huge."
Todd Kamps
Head of Design at Roostify
It's time to get your team a powerful design system
Our team can work with you in 3 different ways and get you setup with design systems.
Design System Training
Our team will come alongside your team and help train them and build out your design system.
Includes:
- Kick off with your team
- Review of current work
- Action plan and scheduling
- Daily team check-ins and guidance
- In-depth walkthroughs of key design system processes and tools
- Access to our design systems for designers starter course
- UX pattern recommendations
Figma UI Kit
Get your design team running with a critical component of the design system, the UI kit.
Includes:
- Kick off with your team
- Component audit and review
- Figma Schema and Atomic Design structure
- Design system UI kit creation
- Design system governance
- Design and developer coordination
Full Design System Team
Bring our full design system team on board to help establish and build your system.
Includes:
- Kick off with your team
- Component audit and review
- Figma schema and atomic design structure
- Design system UI kit creation
- Design system governance
- Design and developer coordination
- Component creation in front end technology
Relevant resources
How to Maintain a Design System That Teams Actually Use
9 min
Extending Your Enterprise Design System with a Product Library
5 min
Free Figma UI kit and design system
Never start from scratch again. Quickly mockup a product design or marketing site for your project.
Other ways we can help
Digital Product Design - UI UX
Get an initial design for your new product, test new feature ideas, enhance your current product with an audit.
UX Audits
Get an actionable plan to improve your product and get happier customers with our comprehensive UX audit report.
Design Ops and Training
Get your product team up to speed on the lastest Figma concepts. We can even lead and mentor your team and help you hire the best designers for your needs.