Design System Essentials
Explore essential insights into our design systems and our process. Discover how together, we can empower your business.
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Why invest in a design system?
Consistency
Designing at scale is hard. With a library of reusable components and patterns, it’s easy to maintain brand and visual standards across your projects.
Efficiency
Having a pre-defined library of components frees up design resources from spending time refining details and allows teams to focus on bigger problems.
Scalability
A strong design system adapts and grows with your organization — the same components remain effective for ten screens or a thousand.
When do you need a Design System?
Company growth outpacing design assets
Our team identifies themes and inconsistencies in your products to build a set of foundational, reusable components that fit your needs, expedite product development, and make design changes easy to maintain.
Wasting resources recreating design elements
DOOR3 focuses on building a system that helps your teams to stop reinventing the wheel. Your library of pre-built assets will immediately save time, drive consistency, and improve the user experience.
Outdated brand books, unused documentation
Through our assessment process, we work with you and your tech stack to find efficiencies and build the design system in a way that integrates into the design process, making it easy to adopt and share.
Teams overwhelmed by documentation
With a design system and -the documentation of all elements, their functionality and behaviors live inside. No more wasted hours describing recurring elements.
Design system vs. No design system
Without Design System
Rebuilding the same components from scratch for every new project slows down velocity. The workflow becomes repetitive project-to-project, not to mention it’s messy.
With Design System
A design system makes it easy to build consistent experiences across projects, is quick to update, and seamlessly integrates into both the design and development workflow.
Our Process
Initial assessment
We work with you to understand the problems being faced by your organization. No two companies are alike, and we tailor the discovery process to suit the needs and goals of your project.
Definition of scope
We define a roadmap for production, including a list of components and patterns, future enhancements, and a timetable for design and implementation.
Design and iteration
We work iteratively and collaboratively as your design system consultants, sharing our progress along the way to ensure that everything is being designed up to the standards and needs of your company.
Handoff and support
Whether facilitating a smooth handoff or passing the ball to our own DOOR3 developers, we stay close to ensure seamless integration and help to nurture the evolution of your design system.
What Do We Deliver To You?
Guidelines
We provide an in-depth styleguide from scratch or using your company’s existing brand guidelines to define how the design system will be assembled, including everything from typography and colors to layouts and interactions.
Components
The component library forms the nuts and bolts of the design system — a set of reusable, modular building blocks that allow for rapid designing and iteration on websites and applications at large scales.
Patterns
Using the component library as the foundation, we define larger structures called “patterns” which can include navigation, form templates, data tables, and anything else that’s needed.
