Date
Project Type
Skills
Dec. 2022 - Present
Team Work
Interviews, Usability testing, Prototyping
As the key designer responsible for the Design System project, I worked with 4 designers to create the components and guidence from 0-1. With limited source and weekly design requirements, we made reasonable plans and effective task allocation to ensure that every designer involved can complete a part of the design system in a period.
It is a project driven by the design team. I actively reached out and collected voices from other teams, development teams, market teams, and end users.
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EnergySage has three products, including Roof Solar Marketplace, Community Solar Marketplace and Heat Pump Marketplace. Although there are product connections between each platform, their design connections are fragmented.
As teams grow, if there is no systematic way to guide different teams to work in one direction, more people join will make this gap become the Mariana Trench.
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This system aims to create a systemic approach and guardrails to help design teams and develop teams utilize components to improve efficiency and maintain continuity and consistency, so that developers can focus on logic and designers can focus on flows and user experience.
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When I joined the team, there were only 3 designers. Later the team grew. Due to a lack of reasonable constraints, the output of each designer is different. Designers have been struggling with standardized UX and UI designs.
There is no effective communication among different front-end engineer teams. Actually, the code of components can be reused and maintained to save time.
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This is a monumental and challenging task, and we only have 4 UX designers. This is the first version of an entirely new system, but it has laid a sustainable design language. Design and code are shared.
The development team, especially the front-end engineer team, said they can't wait to use it. Designers can also focus more on product and user experience than adjusting colors and sizes on visual elements. .
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