022024
ISU
Enterprise platform, one design system · scale
- Role
- Design systems lead
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Design system · Tokens · Documentation · Governance
One design system across a platform that had grown three of everything.
Three greys, two radii and a documentation site nobody trusted. The first pass was less a design problem than an inventory problem: what exists, what is actually used, and what can quietly go away.
Tokens became a typed source of truth, the component set was rebuilt code-first, and the documentation turned into working examples. Designers edit variables, engineers consume the same names, and the next redesign never has to happen.