Lean Design Systems
Make your product feel like one product again.
The step-by-step field guide for teams whose product has grown in every direction. Build a design system your team actually uses, starting small and shipping from week one.
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The problem
Every team that shipped fast eventually hits the same wall. Three button styles. Four date pickers. A settings page that looks like it came from another company. Customers notice. And every new feature takes longer because nobody can find the right parts.
Most design system projects try to fix this with a six-month library nobody adopts. Lean Design Systems takes a smaller, faster route.
What you'll learn
Five stages, from first audit to a system that lasts.
- 01Plan
Define the scope, the owner and the journeys that matter most.
- 02Research
Find where your product has fractured, and what it is costing you.
- 03Design
Agree the foundations and build the first shared components.
- 04Test
Pilot them in live product work.
- 05Embed
Set up ownership and adoption, so the system keeps growing without decaying.
About the author
Anton Stout
Anton has spent sixteen years in product and customer experience at Myer, Telstra Health, Flybuys, Origin Energy and Sonoa Health, and with startups and small businesses. He writes for UXmatters and built MethodLoop, a library of practical research tools.
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