Design systems: One system across every product.

A design system that serves several products at once — like our own. Tokens, ~40 components in every state, Storybook and Figma Variables. Design and engineering stop arguing and start shipping faster.

~40
components in every state
4–8 wks
from audit to rollout
Storybook
component catalogue with code
100%
of the code in your repository
SOUND FAMILIAR?

Where it usually hurts

01

Ten different buttons

Each product has its own buttons, colours and spacing. Users feel they are dealing with different companies, and the brand drifts from screen to screen.

02

Every screen from scratch

The designer redraws what already exists and the developer rebuilds it. The team's time goes on repeats rather than on anything new.

03

Mock-up says one thing, code another

Values in the designs and in the code don't match. Every handover turns into a thread about how it should look, and releases slip.

04

A small change takes a week

To change the brand colour, someone hunts for it by hand across every product. Something always gets missed and the mismatch stays.

WHAT YOU GET

What the business gains

One style everywhere

A single source of truth for the landing page, the app and the customer account. Products stop drifting apart in the details and the brand holds across screens.

Faster releases

A designer assembles a screen from ready components; a developer takes the code from Storybook. New features ship several times faster.

One language with engineering

Tokens in Figma Variables = variables in code. Design and frontend work with the same entities, and value mismatches disappear.

Less technical debt

Change a token and it changes across every product. No copy-pasted styles and no ten different buttons nobody can fix later.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

A working system: tokens, components in every state, and a deployed Storybook people write code from.

01

Tokens are the foundation

Colour, typography, spacing, radii, shadows and motion live as tokens, not magic numbers. Figma Variables and code variables stay in sync: one change rolls out across every product.

  • Tokens: color, type, space, radius, shadow
  • Figma Variables = variables in code
  • Light / dark theme on request
  • No magic numbers in the mockups
02

Components and states

Around 40 components in every state: hover, active, focus, error, loading, disabled. A full behavioural specification for development, not just appearance.

  • ~40 components: forms, navigation, cards, modals
  • Every state, edge cases included
  • Motion spec: easing, duration
  • Composition rules and the grid
03

Storybook and handover

Every component lives in Storybook with all its states and its code. A developer opens the page, sees the component and copies the implementation — no back-and-forth about how it should work.

  • Storybook with every component and state
  • Documentation on using the components
  • Code in your repository, no contractor lock-in
  • An introduction to the system for designers and developers
04

Adoption and evolution

A system only lives while someone tends it. We help roll it into your current products, agree the contribution rules, and can run its development on a monthly retainer.

  • Rollout into existing products
  • Contribution rules and versioning
  • Design review of changes in code
  • Maintenance and new components (monthly)
HOW WE WORK

From brief to launch

  1. Week 0Product audit, component inventorydesigner + tech lead
  2. Week 1Tokens: colour, typography, spacing, motiondesigner
  3. Weeks 2–4Components in every statedesigner + frontend
  4. Weeks 5–6Storybook, documentation, token-to-code syncfrontend
  5. Week 7Rollout into the product, training, contribution rulesthe team
  6. + 30 daysSupport through adoption, design reviewincluded
PACKAGES

Pick the scope

UI KIT2–4 wks

Tokens and a base set of components in Figma. No Storybook, no code.

  • Tokens: colour, type, spacing
  • ~20 base components
  • The main states
  • A Figma library
  • Storybook — not included
  • Sync with code — not included
Discuss
SYSTEM + MAINTENANCE4–8 wks + /mo

A system across several products, plus evolution and review on a monthly retainer.

  • Full design system
  • Several products / themes
  • Rollout into current products
  • Design review of changes in code
  • New components from the backlog
  • Versioning and changelog
Discuss the scope

Package prices are in the price list. We put an exact number on it after a free review of the task.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED

Questions about this service

What is Storybook and why do we need it?
A catalogue of components with examples and code. A developer opens the page, sees the component in every state and copies the implementation. It removes roughly half the “how should this look” questions and speeds development up.
We already have a Figma project — can you build on it?
Yes. We audit what exists: convert styles into tokens, tidy the components, add the missing ones and stand up Storybook. Priced after the audit so you don't pay for work already done.
Isn't a design system expensive for a single product?
For one simple product a UI kit (from $4,400) or design tokens within the UX/UI work is often enough. A full system pays off from two products upward, or when growth is planned: it saves on every release after.
Do we keep the code?
Yes. Components and tokens live in your repository and Storybook deploys on your servers. No contractor lock-in: develop the system with your own team or keep us on a monthly retainer.
How do we maintain the system afterwards?
Either your team, under the contribution and versioning rules we set, or us on a monthly retainer (from $2,300/month): new components, design review, updates. What matters is that someone tends it — otherwise it goes stale.
Next step

Let's build the system that makes releases faster.

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