Advantages
Design system
The starting point for scale the value of a product
Our tailor-made approach meets the needs of every company: from the single product to the most complex digital ecosystem.
What a design system actually is?
A design system is the structured set of principles, guidelines, and elements that consistently define the appearance and behavior of one or more digital products.
Unlike a simple library of components, design systems are not just a collection of elements or rules but are intended to guide the overall design of user experiences in a uniform and efficient manner.
In both large organizations and small single-team entities, design systems are now a key element in the development of digital products and services.
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Visual and functional consistency
It helps in creating consistent user-interfaces, both in terms of visual and behavior. This makes digital products more intuitive and user-friendly.
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Development efficiency
It offers reusable elements and patterns that simplify the development process. Developers are guided in using predefined components to quickly build new functionality, saving both time and resources.
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Simplifying the design process
It provides a shared basis for the design process, facilitating the work of designers as well as communication and collaboration among teams.
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Flexibility and ease of updating
It allows changes and improvements to be implemented quickly and effectively. This flexibility is essential to adapt to a constantly evolving market and to user needs.
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Improving collaboration
It promotes collaboration among all people on the team, especially between the design and development areas. Everyone works with the same tools and resources, simplifying communication and knowledge sharing.
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Reducing errors
With its predefined and tested components, design or implementation errors are less likely to occur. This helps in ensuring the overall quality of the product.
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Brand consistency
It helps synthesize and “ground” the principles of a specific product’s brand identity, providing an effective global brand experience.
Use cases
Over the years, we have addressed a number of typical contexts related to design system design, which can help to better understand how we work and the impact.
Design system from scratch
This is the most common scenario: each of our projects goes hand in hand with building and coding a design system. With our THX DS approach and framework, we fulfill this task in a highly optimized way and we ensure the team's focus on generating value for end-users.
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Design system from an existing context
In several cases, we have helped companies, with more or less evolved digital ecosystems, to build design systems from a set of existing applications. It is a complex process, which we manage to govern with the right approach, and by facilitating communication between different teams in the organization.
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Evolution of an existing design system
At other times we have been able to start from an existing design system, correcting and optimizing any weaknesses, and retaining any valuable elements already in place. In these cases, from a technical point of view, we evaluate the convenience of using existing structures or items or whether to rebuild them with alternative tools and frameworks.
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Design System and Accessibility
We are convinced that, in order to design accessible products and services, it is necessary to integrate within design systems all information related to accessibility: global indications related to navigation, management of content and images, and how each individual component works in accordance with the principles of WCAG. This solution is applicable both in design systems created from scratch and in already existing ones.
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