Building a Design System — a case study

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Context

Scaler is an EdTech company that provides online education and learning resources to students and professionals. To ensure consistency and usability across their platform, Scaler has developed a design system that covers all the components used in their products.

Problem Statement

Over the years, Scaler has experienced rapid product growth, but this has also resulted in a lack of structure in terms of product design, thereby leading to severe inconsistency in user experience across platforms.

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Responsibilities

I was a member of a cross-functional team that had weekly meetings to synchronize on this initiative. My responsibilities included research, defining requirements, UI design, and documentation.

Team

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The Process

The process followed when solving this problem consisted of 3 phases, below is an overview of the latter:

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Research

To gain a better understanding of the various issues with our product, we conducted interviews with individuals from a range of departments, including front-end developers, product managers, engineering managers, and marketing managers.

Following these initial interviews, we determined the need to: