Design systems for digital products

When different teams work on several products, the same problems often get different solutions. Buttons, forms and messages slowly drift apart, and every new page needs the same discussions all over again. A design system sets shared rules. It is useful for businesses building a platform, a family of services or a product with a large number of screens.

We start with an audit of your existing interfaces and recurring scenarios. We define the base styles, components, variants and states. We describe when to use each solution and which constraints to keep in mind. We align the system with your developers so that component names and logic stay clear during implementation and later changes.

You get a design library, usage guidelines and a process for evolving the system. Moving the components into code can be added as a separate scope of work. Design and development sit in one team at Sponge Africa, so we can see you through that transition. Show us the products that need to be aligned and tell us how your teams build new screens today.