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Design Systems

We design, build, and scale bespoke design systems tailored to the unique needs of your technology venture. From comprehensive component libraries, style guides, and pattern libraries to documentation - we provide highly considered solutions for scalable growth.

Key Capabilities

Design Principles

Pattern Libraries

Material Design

Style Guides

UX Design

UI Kits

Figma Component Libraries

Atomic Design

Benefits of a Design System

Consistency

Solidify your brand's integrity by utilising a design system that guarantees uniformity across all UI design touchpoints. From mobile applications to marketing websites, convey a consistent brand with reusable components, amplifying user trust.

Faster Development

Empower your product teams to hit the ground running with predefined design elements and standards. Streamline development workflows using design tools, reduce redundancy with reusable components, and bring your digital products to life swiftly.

Efficiency

Maximise the return on your product design efforts. With a single source of truth, avoid common design problems, make efficient design decisions, and ensure impactful, purpose-driven choices are made at pace.

Scalability

Design and build for the future, not just the present. A design system ensures your digital products can evolve faster and adapt to new challenges, without compromising the integrity of user experiences.

Improved UX

A harmonious design speaks directly to the user, making interactions intuitive and memorable. Good design systems elevate user experiences by ensuring every touchpoint is thoughtful yet consistent.

Maintenance

A structured design system simplifies updates and iterations, ensuring that code snippets and changes are easily integrated, keeping your digital presence and digital experiences fresh and up-to-date.

Key Design System Capabilities

Design Principles

Foundational design principles ensure every interaction and UX decision aligns with your brand's core values, enabling tailored, resonant user experiences from MVP to mature product.

Material Design

Ensures interactions that foster early user adoption and loyalty.

Atomic Design

Robust and adaptive UI that provides a scalable and cohesive user experience.

Interaction Design

Creating sustained user engagement through every product adaptation.

UX Design

Aligning present needs and future engagements with brand values.

Other Activities

UI Prototyping

Component Library

Design Audit

Accessibility Compliance

Style Guide

Crafting a unique digital footprint, our meticulous style guides ensure your brand’s voice remains undeviating and distinctive across every platform.

Colour

Strategic colour palettes to elevate brand perception and consistency.

Typography

Communicate your brand’s character, ensuring readability and cohesiveness.

Iconography

Intuitive and aesthetically aligned with your brand’s identity.

Brand Voice

Maintain a steady brand voice by adhering to visual principles and guidelines.

Other Activities

Brand Identity

Visual Design

Product Design

Iconography

Pattern Library (UI Kit)

Accelerating product design and ensuring aesthetic and functional consistency across all interfaces, providing rapid, reusable design solutions.

Reusable Components

Centrally housing crafted UI elements and design patterns for product coherence.

Efficient Design

Quick, dependable design elements for consistent, high-quality components.

Supporting Product Teams

A solid, flexible foundation of elements and patterns for product development.

Consistent UI

Uniformity across UI, fortifying brand identity and user experience.

Other Activities

Design Patterns

Visual Consistency

Design Tokens

App Design

Component Library

Optimise your product design and development processes, ensuring consistent, adaptable, and scalable UI components.

Single Source of Truth

Uniform, meticulously crafted UI components, enhancing brand and UX.

Developer-Friendly

Enhanced workflow with components designed for seamless integration.

Scalable Components

Adapt and scale without sacrificing design consistency or functionality.

Adaptable UI

Tailor UI/UX elements to your brand while maintaining usability.

Other Activities

Wireframes

Journey Mapping

Web Design

App Design

Documentation

Simplify your journey from design to development with clear, easy-to-follow documentation, crafted specifically for your team.

Transparent Guidelines

Clear, direct design guidelines, eradicating any guesswork for consistent UI.

Design Context

Deliver context behind designs, creating coherence in your products.

Best Use Cases

Encourages innovation and standardised practices within your design ecosystem.

Align Design & Development

Shared language between designers and developers for aligned product deliverables.

Other Activities

Design Workshops

Team Alignment

Consistency Audits

Solution Mapping

Design System Use Cases

Digital Products

Using a design system accelerates the digital product journey. It offers product designers a unified design language, facilitates swift development iterations, and ensures a consistent and delightful user experience throughout.

Websites

Maintaining a website with a design system means guaranteed uniformity, efficient updates, and an refined user experience. It ensures every customer interaction is consistent, intuitive, and on-brand.

Brands

Elevate brand credibility and loyalty by ensuring every digital touchpoint, from marketing campaigns to landing pages, aligns seamlessly with your brand's core values by integrating a well thought out design system.

Why work with us

Results-driven design

We believe that great design, whether it's traditional web design or intricate system design, transcends aesthetics. Drawing from best practices, we aim for tangible business outcomes such as improved user engagement, higher conversion rates, and increased brand loyalty. A blend of form and function, we align your product's user experience to your business goals.

Tailored approach

We don't believe in a one-size-fits-all strategy. Whether you're in need of Figma design system expertise or exploring broader design system services, we're equipped to cater to your specific needs.

World-class talent

Edition is more than just a design systems agency. Based in New Zealand, we've grown to accommodate a diverse range of projects globally. Our team is experienced, ensuring we offer the best design system expertise available. From designers to project managers, our team members are industry leaders.

Highly collaborative

Our processes are grounded in collaboration. We understand that every brand is a complex system with unique challenges. As strategic partners, we ensure continuous dialogue to understand and align with your vision.

Recent Projects

Kernel — Democratising financial literacy and empowering more New Zealanders to grow their savings.

Digital Product

Marketing Website

Brand Identity

Carepatron — Creating the world’s first all-in-one health platform.

Digital Product

Marketing Website

Brand Identity

FAQs

What is a design system?

Think of a design system as the DNA of your brand’s digital presence. It's a cohesive collection of design guidelines, patterns, and principles that serve as a blueprint for creating consistent and captivating user experiences. It goes beyond colours and typography—it's the roadmap for how your brand feels and functions across all digital touchpoints.

What are the benefits of a design system?

A design system is more than a toolkit—it’s a strategic asset. Streamlining design decisions accelerates product development, fosters seamless collaboration across teams, ensures brand consistency, and offers users an intuitive and memorable experience with your brand. It's like having a north star for your brand’s digital journey.

Does my company need a design system?

If you're looking to elevate your brand's digital experience, ensure consistency across platforms, or streamline collaboration between teams, the answer is yes. Whether you're launching a new product or scaling an existing one, a tailored design system can be the game-changer, setting the stage for growth and innovation.

What are the key components of a design system?

It's the combination of vision and detail. At its core, a design system encompasses guiding design principles, a meticulous style guide, a versatile pattern library (or UI kit), a ready-to-deploy component library, and crystal-clear documentation. It’s the holistic toolkit that marries aesthetics with functionality, ensuring every interaction resonates with the voice of your brand.

What’s the difference between a design system and a component library?

A component library, an integral part of the design system, is a curated set of reusable UI elements, pre-coded for swift deployment. In contrast, a design system is an overarching umbrella, encapsulating design rationale, visual standards, interactions, voice, tone, and strategy. While a component library offers the building blocks, the design system provides the vision and narrative for how those blocks come together.

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