Design System and Design Ops Strategy
Translate an existing responsive site into an atomic design system, balancing consistency and flexibility through a scalable governance model.
CLIENT
Kyndryl
PARTNER
CAPABILITIES
Design Research, Service Design, UX/UI Design, Prototyping
APPROACH
After interviewing key stakeholders, we proposed a modular “system of systems” to balance consistency at scale with flexibility and designer autonomy. We refactored the site, identifying redundancies and gaps in existing styles, UI primitives, and components. Color palettes, type ramps, and layout grids were then defined as styles in Figma, while UI primitives were rebuilt as auto-layout components with variants. Together, these were published as “Aspen Foundation,” a Library that all Figma users at Kyndryl have access to by default. Foundation, in turn, became the basis for Aspen Dotcom (web MarCom components) and other platform-specific systems (native mobile, enterprise apps, etc.).