SECTOR

Design System

TYPE

UI/UX, Product Design

Production, Artwork, Guidelines

ROLE

UI Designer, UX Designer, IxD Designer

Graphic & UI Designer

UI Case Study showcasing the Architecture behind a Design System using Master and Child Components and Atomic Design Principles.

Component Library
&
UI KIT

Goals

This is a UI Case study on the development of a custom Design System for the client T&T. A Design System includes UI kits, Component Libraries, Styleguides, and Pattern libraries. Featuring the “Slider Master Component”, to showcase how a optimised design, QA and Dev process looks like.

Challenge

I've crafted this piece to visually articulate the significance of intentional UI Architecture when creating a digital product aiming to scale. In an era increasingly valuing automation, AI and UX, the nuanced role of a UI/UX designer in crafting a Design System is getting obscured.

My Contribution & Team

I created this architecture through a decade of experience creating design guides for every single client I worked with. Refined by working with various methodologies, teams, and companies, it's my gift to you to showcase the tangible value a dedicated designer with deep knowledge of design systems can bring to your product.

Solution

Refactoring child components into a Global Master Component able to cascade one single QA to all children and dependencies on Figma and on tools such as StoryBook, using modular and atomic design principles.

MY SERVICES

- UI Architecture
- Design System
- Design refactoring
- QA

- UI Architecture
- Design System
- Design refactoring
- QAl

- UI Architecture
- Design System
- Design refactoring
- QA

This UI Case Study is part of the development of a custom Design System for the client Turner & Townsend, during the development of 4 responsive dashboards.

Neatly organised

Each symbol, piece or component is neatly structured and organized.

Nested Symbols and Overrides

Nested Symbols
and Overrides

Override system based on nested symbols, following atomic design principles

Dynamic resizing

Each component is elastic, automatically fitting any breakpoint

Component Anatomy

This is the Slider Master Component which will be used to showcase how UI arquitecture is important. When set properly, all it's child components can be automatically QA'd.

Sections

Here is a Body Section, it can be a chart or a table. We simply select the Section Symbol and override it with other symbols in the library.

Here is a Body Section, it can be a chart or a table. We simply select the Section Symbol and override it with other symbols in the library

Component Combinations

Having Sections with Nested Symbols creates many combinations, resulting in consistency, flexibility and scalability for any project at an early stage

Source of all truth

A Master Component serves as a source of truth to Developers and Designers. A developer codes components based on signed-off master components. Since all live components are replicas of that, poor pixel perfection is no issue.

Having Sections with Nested Symbols creates many combinations, resulting in consistency, flexibility and scalability for any project at an early stage

A Master Component serves as a source of truth to Developers and Designers. A developer codes components based on signed-off master components. Poor pixel perfection is no issue.

A Master Component serves as a source of truth to Developers and Designers. A developer codes components based on signed-off master components. Since all live components are replicas of that, poor pixel perfection is no issue.

Component Library

Components also have variants for states, interactive and UX behaviours, these are all accounted for when setting the UI for components.

UI KIT

Atomic Symbols

A master symbol contains nested. symbols. Instances of the master can be created and changes can be applied across all files with a click.

Example of an instance: Elevation: 04/00, Shape: 4px corners, Color: Cyan, Tint: 0%, Shade: 0%, State: Disabled

Every cell is a symbol, characters cells align to the left, values to the right each can have 1 or 2 lines. Every cell has nested symbols, backgrounds, dividers and icons to create cell states.

Forms & Tables

Table system

Every cell is a symbol, characters cells align to the left, values to the right each can have 1 or 2 lines. Every cell has nested symbols, backgrounds, dividers and icons to create cell states.

Tables can be dense to pack lots of data or standard, they have a defined structure: Header, content and footer cells.

This App assists Cost and Risk Managers track the cost evolution of a project, such as the construction of The Shard.
The goal is to assure the project is accurately managed.