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Web Components and Design Systems
Your 14th Button variant is a symptom. The design system is the diagnosis.
Design systems that work across teams and frameworks. Web components built on standards — not abstractions that become legacy debt in three years when your framework of choice gets abandoned.
Design system architecture built on Web Components and web standards. Figma-to-code design token integration, cross-framework compatibility, and the infrastructure that makes your UI consistent without requiring a committee meeting for every button.
We focus on governance as much as implementation: a design system that nobody uses is just a side project. We build the documentation, tooling, and adoption patterns that make it easier to use the system than to work around it.
Engagement Process
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Design System Audit
Before building anything, we map what you already have. This means cataloging existing UI patterns across your product, identifying where inconsistencies actually hurt — not just where they bother designers aesthetically — and understanding the organizational dynamics that caused the inconsistency in the first place. A design system that nobody adopts is worse than no design system.
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Token Architecture and Foundation
Design tokens are the foundation that makes a design system portable. We design the token hierarchy — from primitive values to semantic decisions to component-level variables — in a way that can be consumed by your frontend frameworks, your Figma design library, and your web components simultaneously. This is where Figma-to-code gap problems get solved structurally rather than per-component.
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Component Development
Web components built on standards (Lit, native Web Components APIs) that work in any framework your teams use. We prioritize the components with the highest reuse factor and the most variation in your current codebase — the ones where inconsistency is costing the most engineering time to maintain.
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Documentation, Governance, and Adoption
A design system is a product with internal customers. We build the documentation (Storybook, usage guidelines, when-not-to-use notes), establish the contribution and governance model, and work with your teams to drive adoption. The measure of success is whether people use the system because it's better, not because they're required to.
Outcomes
- Design token architecture spanning code and Figma, with a synchronization strategy appropriate to your toolchain
- Standards-based web component library with cross-framework compatibility
- Storybook documentation with usage examples and interactive controls
- Governance model: how components get proposed, reviewed, and maintained going forward
- Adoption metrics and a migration plan for moving existing components to the new system
- Cross-framework consumption guide covering your team's active frameworks — additional framework documentation available as follow-on scope
Right for You If
- Companies with two or more product teams experiencing UI consistency problems
- Design and engineering organizations where the Figma-to-code gap is creating rework
- Rebranding projects that need to systematically update UI across multiple products
- Companies that have evaluated off-the-shelf component libraries and found none that fit
- Engineering teams spending disproportionate time resolving presentational bugs
- Organizations planning to build internal products alongside customer-facing ones
Scope and Pricing
Design system engagements run in phases. A foundation sprint — audit, token architecture, 5–10 core components — runs 4–8 weeks. Component library build-out continues as a follow-on project or retainer. Foundation sprints are typically 60–120 hours of work, totaling $10,500–$21,000 at the current rate. Governance and ongoing maintenance can be structured as a reduced-commitment monthly retainer once the foundation is in place.
Compounds Well With
These services are frequently engaged together for maximum yield.