Relias | The importance of a design system
Growth is great, but it can be messy for product teams.
When you experience rapid growth, it's a reason to cheer! Investors are happy, customers love your product, and management is on fire (figuratively and literally). But what about the product teams? How does rapid growth impact engineers, designers, and product managers?
Add acquisitions, a growing number of contractors, and new hires to the mix, and you've got yourself a problem that can cost millions in inefficiencies. This is especially true if you're like Relias, serving a modest clientele of 11,000 organizations.
When we started working with them, we discovered design and code inconsistencies in their product lines, spotty communication between squads, and different codebases. This led to a lot of duplicated effort and significantly increased expenses.
So, what did we do? We defined and created a design system to address these problems and systematically deployed it across the organization.
Curious to learn more about how our design system tackled these challenges? Dive into our case study to explore the nitty-gritty details and see how we transformed chaos into efficiency.