Design Systems
Design Systems are the heart of every project, enabling teams to innovate and deliver quickly and consistently, building the backbone for effective collaboration across the entire organisation.
Why use a Design System?
Coherence
A toolkit of universal and standardised guidelines and components optimise workflows and create a consistent user experience.
Scalability
Ideate, build, test, ship and iterate features efficiently by automating the trivial parts of product development, so your teams can get creative where it really matters.
Lean collaboration
Engineers and designers have a shared language streamlining their collaboration and workflows, and facilitating collaboration.
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Why we work with Design Systems
A Design System consists of standards, guidelines and re-usable components that give every team the tools they need to design, build, grow and maintain digital products.
Establishing infrastructure
A Design System optimises your team’s operational processes by defining how they collaborate and feed into each other's work; systematising the approach to information distribution; and establishing clear rules of governance.
Setting up standards
We help you establish high-level principles that serve as the foundation of your Design System and provide direction from an early stage.
Building out assets
Reusable components reduce design-and-tech-debt and speed up production. By enabling teams to expand and improve componentized assets, the Design System frees up resources to do creative and innovative work, as well as creating more opportunities for collaboration.
Upcoming Design Systems events
Blog posts
Design Systems articles created by members of YLD for the community.
Design Systems London Goes Online
January 18th, 2022
Culture of Learning
November 15th, 2018
Do I need a design system?
December 12th, 2017