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Harness the power of connected design systems
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- Patrik Svensson
- Partner, Team Co-Lead
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- Johanne Floris Christensen
- Partner, Team Lead
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By fully connecting design, content and engineering teams with your products, a connected design system has the power to revolutionise how you shape your digital experiences.
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Design systems bring clarity and scalability to an organisation's digital products.
Made up of small building blocks, a design system can respond to any business need efficiently and consistently.
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But maintenance is costly because the development of a design system is still largely a manual process.
It often falls solely on engineering teams to keep in sync with the system, impacting their ability to react to change.
With a connected design system, updates from the design can be turned into code in just one click.
Brand decisions can be controlled by design instantly. Engineers are free from lengthy manual alignment work.
How it works
Transform your brand into data via design tokens
Design tokens are essentially the elemental building blocks of a design system, providing a standardised way to represent design decisions such as colours, 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.
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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.
How we help
Adopting a connected design system means organisations 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.
Advisory and analysis
Design and build implementation
Governance and support
Cases
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Demant
Four brands managed under one headless design system
Implementing a multi-brand design system for Demant's four hearing aid brands is a strategic move that will bring improved efficiency, consistency, scalability, and, ultimately, an enhanced user experience. By establishing a shared platform and design framework, we balance maintaining individual brand identities and achieving a seamless user experience across all brands.
PensionDanmark
Strategic Design and UX Partner
Our team developed a future-proof design system that ensures seamless implementation of new designs and content across all digital platforms, providing flexibility and ease. The results of our collaboration aim to elevate PensionDanmark's digital presence, streamline user and brand experiences, and establish a cohesive brand identity throughout its digital products. Together, we laid the foundation for an outstanding digital journey for PensionDanmark and its customers.
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Sampension
Transforming digital experiences
The Integrated Design System brings numerous benefits: By making sure future development is in line with the visual design direction, it ensures a consistent and cohesive user experience with a customer-centric approach. It enables efficient implementation of high quality and reduces costs. Overall, the Integrated Design System empowers Sampension to deliver an optimised self-service experience that aligns with strategic goals and meets evolving customer needs.
Statkraft
Implementing a unified design system across digital products
This initiative fosters a more consistent user experience and brand presence across all products and platforms. We are developing a comprehensive design system spanning over a large number of internal and external digital products and services. This initiative not only enhances efficiency and consistency but also boosts scalability while enriching the user experience for end-users like hydrologists, engineers, analytics, external partners, as well as developers and designers.
Given the substantial volume of data and intricate nature of Statkraft's digital product portfolio, coupled with the need to keep key platforms updated and the opportunity to modernize, the implementation of a more unified and easily navigable design system is crucial for future maintanence and development. This is a powerful and great tool for us when we are tackling new challenges making products and great user experiences for Statkraft now and in to the future.
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