Crafting Cohesive Experiences with Design Systems & UI Kits
At Wisual, we believe great design thrives on consistency and efficiency. That's why we champion the power of Design Systems & UI Kits, empowering brands to elevate their user experience and accelerate design workflows
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The Strategic Advantage of Design Systems
While design systems undoubtedly enhance brand coherence and user experience, their true value lies in their transformative impact on organizational efficiency and business growth. In today's competitive landscape, embracing a design system philosophy is not simply a stylistic choice but a strategic imperative.
Improved Efficiency
Design systems act as centralized repositories of reusable components, style guides, and code snippets. This readily available library empowers teams to avoid redundant work, drastically reducing design and development cycles. Imagine the exponential gains when resources are redirected towards innovation and strategic initiatives.
Building Brand Consistency
A unified design language across all touchpoints fosters a sense of familiarity and trust, strengthening user interactions with your brand. Consistent experiences cultivate user confidence and satisfaction, translating into enhanced loyalty and advocacy.
Minimizing Errors, Maximizing Maintainability
Design systems serve as a single source of truth, encompassing UI elements, accessibility guidelines, and coding standards. This mitigates inconsistencies and potential errors, streamlining development processes and simplifying maintenance. Think of it as proactive bug prevention, eliminating costly rework and frustration.
Empowering Teams, Elevating Output
Extensive documentation, readily available components, and intuitive code within the design system empower both designers and developers. They can confidently tackle complex challenges without reinventing the basics, liberating them to focus on high-impact initiatives that drive user value.
Creating a design system to build coherent digital products
Crafting a design system isn't a one-size-fits-all endeavor. Organizations typically tailor systems to their unique requirements, ensuring they align closely with their goals and user needs. By following this advice, you can give your team a shared design language, empowering them to design consistently and coherently. This approach facilitates smoother collaboration and enhances the overall user experience.
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The Right Team Model
Gather the right people for your mission
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Element list
Collect all elements and prioritize them
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Pattern Libarary
Design all the components from scratch
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Documentation
Create the necessary descriptions
The Best Design Systems Use Atomic Design
With the Atomic theory - designed by Brad Frost - we can break visual elements into atoms, molecules, and organisms. Design systems start with the atoms and work their way up, ensuring the utmost consistency.
Atoms
Atoms represent the most basic building blocks of a user interface. Atoms are individual elements like buttons, input fields, icons, and text styles. They are the foundation and cannot be broken down further.
Molecules
Molecules are created by combining multiple atoms together to form more complex, yet still relatively simple, components. For example, a search form might be a molecule consisting of an input field (atom), a button (atom), and a label (atom) grouped together.
Organisms
Organisms are even more complex components that are built by combining molecules and atoms. These can be standalone sections of a user interface, such as a navigation menu, header, footer, or sidebar.
Templates
Templates provide the structure for a page or layout. They are essentially wireframes that dictate where organisms, molecules, and atoms should be placed on a page. Templates do not include styles or real content but serve as a blueprint.
Pages
Pages are where the actual content and visual design come into play. Pages are created by filling in the templates with real text, images, and styles. This is where the design takes its final form, and user interactions are implemented.
What Else Can a Design System Cover?
Typography
Which fonts and text sizes are used - as well as how and where they’re applied.
Color Palette
Primary colors, secondary colors and branding palettes are essential for consistency.
Logo
Ensure your logo is used correctly, including size, spacing and color variants.
Icons
Likewise, establish your iconography and graphics in one central location.
Brand Values
What does your company stand for? How is this reflected in your products? They can’t be coded, but your design system should include them.
Style Guide
Messaging and tone of voice - ensure your design system is a single source of truth for everyone, including marketing and branding, not just designers and developers.
Typography
Which fonts and text sizes are used - as well as how and where they’re applied.
Color Palette
Primary colors, secondary colors and branding palettes are essential for consistency.
Logo
Ensure your logo is used correctly, including size, spacing and color variants.
Icons
Likewise, establish your iconography and graphics in one central location.
Brand Values
What does your company stand for? How is this reflected in your products? They can’t be coded, but your design system should include them.
Style Guide
Messaging and tone of voice - ensure your design system is a single source of truth for everyone, including marketing and branding, not just designers and developers.
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Design Strategy
We create user experiences for your brand that are in line with overall goals and objectives of the company.
User Research
With extensive qualitative and quantitative research we put your design into the right context.
UX / UI Design
Developing amazing product experience with on target UX and an equally engaging UI design.
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