Palette design system
Client
Anaplan
Business impact
Increase product engineering speed by >25%
Ensure code quality throughout the platform
·Accelerate time to productivity of offshore partnerships
Key details and skills
Number of designers: 5
Skills used: Illustration, systems design, iconography, typography, motion design, visual design, stakeholder management, presentation and communications
Design system role
I have been a lead member of the design system for the past 3 years. I have ben responsible for the creation of around 30 components, over 40 icons and a number of empty states and illustrations. I have helped to define product patterns and I have conducted reviews with feature teams to make sure that they are compliant with our components.
Design system duties
component creation
UI spec creation and engineering support
design system site management
tokenisation
motion design
iconography
illustration
visual design language library creation
Process
Who I worked with
I worked with 4 other designers, working under the direction of the Design System lead designer. I worked on the design system alongside my feature work and split my time between project. We all had to ahve advanced figma knowledge to create and maintain components in our figma library for the design team.
What I achieved
Many successful component releases which contributed to the successful completion of new feature areas and helped reduce time to release
Implementation of illustrations, icons viewed by hundreds of thousands of users
Creation of and support for the release of a new visual design language for the product
How I worked
As a design system designer I had to work collaboratively across different project silos. I had to collect requirements and turn them into UI spec to work on with engineering. We also had to help prioritise component work based on strategic priority of projects. Additionally, I was responsible for the PR in the design system and sharing company wide updates.