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UI System · 2022

Concept Project

Foundry

A component and token system for a small developer-tools startup.

A concept project, created to demonstrate this site's design system — not real client work.

The Brief

A three-person engineering team was shipping UI faster than any design language could keep up with, and the product was starting to visibly disagree with itself.

The Approach

I worked from real shipped screens backward into a token set and a small, opinionated component library, documented for developers to extend without design review on every screen.

The Outcome

New screens started shipping consistent by default, and the design system doc became the team's shared reference for what the product looks like.

Credits

Role
Design Systems
Year
2022
Deliverables
Token system, component library, documentation site

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