Design system
Building a Scalable and Consistent Brand with Platinum Designs
Design System Creation
Build cohesive systems for unified brand expression and streamlined user experiences.
Scalability
Scale effortlessly as your product evolves, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints.
Component-Based Design
Construct reusable components for efficiency and flexibility in design iterations and new components.
Multi Platform
Designed and launched in Framer or prototyped in Framer with a design system for Framer and Figma.
Updates
Seamlessly integrate updates to reflect evolving design trends and user needs, enhancing system relevance.
Continuous Improvement
Foster a culture of refinement, iterating on components to enhance usability and aesthetic appeal.
How it works
Analyse
To better understand the kind of design system you would like to implement, you need to start by reviewing and analysing the current approach for design at your company.
Identify the Brand’s Alphabet
The visual language that designers will use should be based on the alphabet of a brand. The alphabet includes brand identity (brand and product values) and brand language (colors, fonts, shapes, animations, voice, and tone).
Conduct a UI Audit
One of the most dangerous problems in product design is design duplication, which leads to fragmentation, and fragmentation leads to inconsistency.
Define Design Principles
Understanding the reasons behind design decisions is critical to creating an exceptional user experience.
Pattern Library
Review UI elements, align with project goals, retain essentials, remove excess.
Elements
Many design systems suffer from the duplication of functional elements— team members create components that are too focused on a single-use case.
Communicate Changes
A design system isn’t a static collection of artifacts; it is a by-product of your product design that evolves together with the organisation.
Effortless Scalability
Implementing a robust design system ensures that as your brand and product offerings expand, new features and pages seamlessly adopt the established visual identity, maintaining consistency across all platforms and touchpoints.
Streamlined Design & Development
Reusable components are essential to an efficient design system, acting as modular building blocks that streamline both design and development processes, allowing teams to deliver projects faster and with greater consistency.
Exceptional Developer Handover
A comprehensive and well-documented design system provides clear guidelines, code snippets, and style references, eliminating lengthy design explanations and reducing the potential for misinterpretation, thus streamlining the handoff process.
Simplified Prototyping
Leveraging a Framer-hosted site for rapid prototyping offers significant advantages, allowing teams to test design concepts and user flows before full-scale development, facilitating quick iterations and enhancing usability.
