Design System - design and support development of the system
Summary:
Co-developed a design system that offers a unified language and structured framework to help guide teams through the process of creating digital products for Auckland Council. Design System is to be used for an up-coming web replatform project of moving 80+ Auckland Council websites from Sharepoint to Adobe Experience Manager.
Role:
UX/UI Designer.
The key UX/UI Designers to lead and support the development of the Auckalnd Council’s design system. Core responsibilities included, gap analysis, creating 70+ reusable, accessible and responsive components, authoring usage guidelines. Designing templates and a grid system that can accommodate multiple digital products across the business while maintaining consistency and coherence across the product suite. This encourages a more streamlined design process and ensures the user journey is more consistent, building towards a positive customer experience each time.
Skills:
User experience, usability design, visual design, analysis, prototyping, stakeholder managment.
Product team:
Product Owner, 1 Senior Architect, 1 Senior Business Analyst, Scrum Master, 2 UX/UI Designers, 5 Developers, 4 Testers.
Website: Design system Auckland Council
Below are some background thought process work that contributed to the development of the design system.
Current state gap analysis. Understand pain points and identify opportunities for improvement.
Wireframes to map out key requirements and draft userflow.
A working grid system, page layout templates that can be used across multiple digital products, platforms and viewports.
Craft pixel perfect components with underlying guiding principles that can be used across all interactive touch points.
Design to development specifications for 80 components, and more than 300 Azure Dev Ops user stories (variations).