Usability Test with Five Users
Five moderated sessions on your live product, with recordings and a prioritised list of the problems real users encounter.
Recruitment and scheduling of 5 participants matching your user profile
Design System and Component Library Build
A design component library with tokens, variants and documentation, aligned precisely with the code your developers write.
Overview
What this engagement is
Design systems break down when the design file and the codebase drift apart, so we build both sides in step. Colour, typography and spacing are defined as tokens and exported in a format your front-end consumes directly, meaning a palette change never requires searching through stylesheets. Around 40 components are built with variants and auto-layout that holds up when resized. Accessibility is checked throughout, because correcting contrast and focus issues after the fact is slow and costly.
Deliverables
What you receive
- Token set covering colour, typography, spacing, radius and elevation
- Around 40 design components with variants, states and auto-layout
- Tokens exported as CSS custom properties or a utility-first CSS framework configuration
- Usage guidance explaining when to use each component and when not to
- Accessibility review against WCAG AA contrast and focus requirements
- Light and dark themes driven from a single token set
- Working session with your design and front-end teams
Outcomes
What changes once it ships
Design and engineering share one vocabulary, so handoff needs no translation
New screens are assembled from existing components rather than drawn from scratch
Accessibility is built into every component instead of patched under pressure
Process
How the 4 stages run
Audit
We catalogue every component and style currently in use
Define
Tokens and naming conventions agreed with design and engineering together
Build
Components are built, documented and reviewed in batches
Adopt
A pilot screen rebuilt with the system to prove it in practice
A strong fit for
- Product teams whose buttons differ subtly from screen to screen
- Organisations expanding from one designer to several
- Front-end teams maintaining several competing style sets
What we need from you
- Access to your current design files and front-end repository
- A designer and a front-end developer available for working sessions
- Decisions on brand colours and typefaces, if still undecided
You share these through the brief that opens in your client dashboard once payment is confirmed. The timeline starts when they arrive.
Answers
Questions about this engagement
Token export and one pilot screen are included. A full coded component library is a separate engagement we are glad to quote.
Not at all. We apply your tokens and conventions on top of that foundation, which is usually the best approach.
Clear ownership and a lightweight review routine, both covered in the adoption session. Design systems fade through neglect, not through poor components.
This is a digital service — nothing is shipped. Work is delivered to the timeline above, into systems you control, and our refund terms explain what happens if a date is missed.
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