Companies with a design system make more experiments, learn quicker and ultimately grow more

After finalizing and polishing their work in Figma, designers often expect developers to magically make sense of it. However, as that's not usually the case, things can end up looking pretty grim. What's going wrong?

Most people emphasize the importance of measuring the value of their design system. Yet, hardly anyone is actually doing it. What’s going on?

Meet the Design System Police! Their job: to make sure things don't get too chaotic. But is too much law and order always a good thing?

Congratulations! You’ve built a design system! Or have you? A Figma file full of components isn’t a design system unless someone is using it. So how do design system teams get their colleagues to use their fancy design systems? We investigated.

When product teams ask management for resources to start a design system project, the first answer is often no. We tried to figure out why, and how to get them to say yes instead.

Many design teams told us that when they first started building their design systems, they felt overwhelmed because they thought they’d need a dedicated team with support and resources. We asked them how they got over it.

Many design teams told us that building their first design systems didn't go as planned, and when they realized what they were building wasn’t working, they'd had to completely rethink their original ideas. So what happened? We were curious to know.

Our CEO went to a conference, and got very angry when a nice man from Google tried to give him good advice.

In the life of every successful digital product there comes a time when creating a proper design system becomes indispensable. But where do you start? ‍

In UX research, the relationship with your stakeholders is incredibly important. If they aren’t ready to listen or if they have the wrong expectations, it doesn’t matter how interesting your insights are.

Evolving a digital product means you have to make a lot of difficult decisions. User research can help you make some of them less difficult.

Roadmaps are supposed to make everything easier. But a lot of product managers tell us they’re not working. So Sara, our UX Team Lead, tried to find out what seems to be the problem.

Why is management trying to stop the product team from building a great product? And why is the product team trying to stop management from building a great product? Everyone working on a digital product wants it to be great. The problem? What we mean by “great” isn’t always the same thing.

A startup moves fast and grows fast. That’s what it’s built to do. But after a while, it can feel like you’re not shipping as fast as you used to. Why does it happen, and how can you fix it?

Everybody’s talking about design systems! Is it all just hype, or are they something you really need? What do they do? Do they do things? Let’s find out!

When Subito, one of Italy’s top 10 online destinations, was in a rush to migrate and rebuild their design system in Figma, they called Belka.