3 posts tagged with "design systems"

Gone are the days where we built websites & apps by manually copy/pasting colors and sizes from a design file, then again from one part of our codebase to another, making small adjustments to make it fit a little better in this one specific instance. Need a slightly larger margin because of an adjacent border? Adjust it to a new pixel value and you’re good to go! A color should be slightly darker here? Edit the color’s hex code down a little!

The result was magic numbers everywhere in CSS, with no indication of the logic behind the adjustments we made in specific instances. And you can forget about a consistent color palette.

While it’s rare that building a thing in the most correct way also gives the fastest result, at bitcrowd we’ve achieved exactly this by building our clients’ component libraries on a solid design system. As a bonus, even backend developers get totally on board with what used to be seen as a niche design or frontend wish.

Congratulations, your product has survived long enough to need a redesign! This is something to be proud of, as is the fact that you’re also about to invest more in its future. But a redesign is a daunting task, with the successful launch day laying far over the horizon.

Bitcrowd has successfully lead many redesign projects, both for long-term clients whose products we’ve been building ourselves for years, and for new clients who find they don’t have the expertise or capacity to complete the task in-house. This post is an outline of how we work to bring as much certainty and security as possible to the process.