Services : Design Systems

Let’s talk about design systems

Creating a design system should be seen as an investment. The set of components created by the Belka team can be reused and recombined, allowing consistency to be maintained throughout the brand experience.

Andrea Sichinolfi

Lead UI Designer, Flowe

What are they?

Typography

Color palette

Iconography

Spacing

Layout

Libraries

Think of a design system as a set of rules that help teams work together to build better digital products.

A design system’s rules will define things like typography, color palettes, iconography, spacing, and layout.

Design system also have libraries of pre-made components that designers and developers can use to create new features more quickly.

Typography

Color palette

Iconography

Spacing

Layout

Libraries

Why do people love them?

Design systems make your product more pleasant to use

Picture this: Your app has been around for a while. It started small, but over time you’ve added a bunch of features. Maybe many different designers have worked on it, or maybe even no designers at all. The user interface is getting a little bit messy.

Adopting a design system with a solid set of rules is a good way to stop things from getting out of hand. It gives your product a consistent look and feel on every screen, and helps you deliver a strong brand and a great user experience.

Design systems make life easier for designers and developers

With clear rules for everything from typography to spacing, designers and developers won’t have to reinvent the wheel every time there’s a new feature or some change to an interface.

A library of pre-made, reusable components also makes the process a lot more efficient by freeing teams from having to constantly start from scratch.

Design systems help your team make better decisions

Making design decisions can be difficult. Especially when stakeholders come to the conversation with different ideas, priorities, expectations and backgrounds.

Design systems to the rescue! Having a shared language helps designers, developers, business managers and everyone else on the team communicate, understand each other, and find the best way forward.

Design systems help you scale everything

With a modular and flexible design system, adding new features becomes much faster and easier.

But it’s not just about features: design systems are also easily scaled to accommodate different projects, teams, products, and different stages of a company’s growth and development.

Design systems let you focus on the important stuff

Building and maintaining a digital product requires a lot of energy and resources. By taking care of the basics, design systems let teams spend less time on how to execute the details of a design, and instead give their attention to more high-level creative and strategic considerations.

In a short time people in Belka have managed to gain all my trust. From their experience to the implementation. It's very difficult to find a firm like this. Total trust.

Andrea Tangredi

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Indigo

So, do you need one?

Design systems are great. But not everyone needs them. Check these lists to see if they could help your team.

The business

You’ve validated your business model, and now you want to grow
You have a dedicated team working on your product
You want to lower costs and increase efficiency

The team

You’d like a smoother, more consistent workflow
You’re tired of reinventing the wheel
You want better communication between design and development

The product

You want a more consistent user experience
You’re about to add new features
You want your product to better express your brand

Not for you if...

You’re still looking for a product-market fit
You only have one website
There’s only one designer on your team
You don’t really want to change your process

Are you thinking what we’re thinking?

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March 2023

What’s a design system, and do I need one?

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!

Let’s talk about design systems

Creating a design system should be seen as an investment. The set of components created by the Belka team can be reused and recombined, allowing consistency to be maintained throughout the brand experience.

What are they?

Typography

Color palette

Iconography

Spacing

Layout

Libraries

Typography

Color palette

Iconography

Spacing

Layout

Libraries

Why do people love them?

Design systems make your product more pleasant to use

Design systems make life easier for designers and developers

Design systems help your team make better decisions

Design systems help you scale everything

Design systems let you focus on the important stuff

In a short time people in Belka have managed to gain all my trust. From their experience to the implementation. It's very difficult to find a firm like this. Total trust.

My expectation were blown away by the team at Belka. We were looking for a supplier, but we found a partner.

My expectation were blown away by the team at Belka. We were looking for a supplier, but we found a partner.

So, do you need one?

The business

The team

The product

Not for you if...

Are you thinking what we’re thinking?

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