Design systems

One component library. Many sites and products.

When every site or product is designed on its own, the same button gets built ten times, slightly differently, and every fix has to be made in ten places.

A design system gives your teams one set of parts, in design and in code, that already work and are already accessible. New pages are put together from those parts, and a fix made once reaches everything.

Built alongside your first release · New pages built from parts that already work

LiveTiles Reach employee app screens across desktop and mobile

What we build

From tokens to templates

Every component across your sites and products, side by side. The duplicates and near-duplicates show where one component can do the job of five.

How it runs

Built with real work, not beside it

  1. Audit

    An inventory of the components, patterns and styles you already have, and where they differ.

  2. Foundations

    Design tokens and core components, agreed with the teams who will use them.

  3. Build with a real release

    The library grows with your first site or product, so every component is proven on a real page.

  4. Roll out

    Documentation, training and a contribution process, so other teams can adopt it and add to it.

Design systems we have built

Shared parts, many places

Imminently

A tokenised design system as the shared foundation for several products, including Highlabs, Blorfy, Trier, BlueKee and Secure Fast.

Seeing Machines

A component library and living style guide for the Guardian Live platform, so developers could reuse components in every new feature.

LiveTiles

A consolidated design system for the existing product suite, alongside the Reach product strategy.

NSW Department of Customer Service

An intranet branding proof of concept.

How many versions of the same button do you have?

Tell us how many sites or products you run and how they are built today. We will tell you where a design system would pay off first.

Here’s some that put their trust in us

Treasury Wine Estates
Fair Work Commission
Seeing Machines
Australian Taxation Office
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New South Wales Government
Department of Home Affairs
National Film and Sound Archive
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
Questacon
Australian War Memorial
Decisively
St Vincent de Paul Society
Biometix
Sport Integrity Australia
Australian Government Department of Defence
Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Australian National University
SyncTech
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Australian Electoral Commission

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