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Overview

Revolutionize digital experience creation

A design system diagram

Design systems bring clarity and scalability to an organization's digital products.

Made up of small building blocks, a design system can respond to any business need efficiently and consistently.

If done right, design systems allow you to integrate design, content, and engineering teams with your products completely but also require adopting new working methodologies.

We help you create the strategy, effective change management practices, and a robust learning culture necessary for your employees to operate successfully within this dynamic ecosystem.

We're here to help you with

  • Design system advisory and analysis
  • Governance and support
  • Design and build implementation
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Aligning design and development teams

For Deutsche Telekom, we've helped build a design system governance framework and a new and overarching Figma-based design system library.

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A multi-brand design system

For Demant's four hearing aid brands, we've created a design system bringing improved efficiency, consistency, scalability, and, ultimately, an enhanced user experience.

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A modernization of the digital product portfolio

For Statkraft, Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy, we developed a comprehensive design system spanning all internal products and platforms.


Getting it right

An illustration of a connected design system

When we create a design system for a client, we make sure that updates from the design can be turned into code in just one click.

This way, brand decisions can be controlled by design instantly. Engineers are free from lengthy manual alignment work.

Transform your brand into data via design tokens

Design tokens are essentially the elemental building blocks of a design system, providing a standardized way to represent design decisions such as colors, typography, spacing, and more.

Working with design token management, the previous challenges with ensuring consistency between design changes and development are now diminishing, as well as the silos between teams. 

An illustration of a different tokens in a design system.
An illustration of how a button design moves from Figma to actual code.

One-click change

Integrating tokens from design into development allows you to make design changes without disrupting development work.

When you have made a design change, it automatically exists in development. Changes also become a natural part of how you think about your digital products instead of being a source of errors and scope creep.

Keeping design decisions in design teams also ensures brand consistency and quality.


Our expertise

Harnessing the power of design systems

Daniel Ridgway

Meet an expert

Daniel Ridgway is a Digital Design Director at Manyone, specializing in design systems that help shape brands while making digital experience creation more fun and efficient.

Creating and connecting design systems means organizations must shift to new working methodologies.

It requires a clear strategy, effective change management practices, and a robust learning culture to equip employees with the new skills necessary to operate within this dynamic ecosystem.

That's where we come in. We offer the following services within design systems:

Whatever level of maturity your organization is at when it comes to design systems, we can analyze and evaluate the next best steps.

We offer services in the full range of implementation for a connected design system. Whether you want to connect design and code or create a new system entirely from scratch, our teams have experience delivering design systems tailored to your organization's needs.

Creating a connected design system on a technical level is one thing. However, to capitalize on its benefits, an organization needs suitable structures to support its growth and adoption.