Background
When I joined, meepShop lacked a Design System, leading to fragmented UI components, inconsistent design patterns, and inefficiencies in collaboration. Each page had its own design language, and the absence of a shared component library made scaling and maintaining the product increasingly difficult.
My Role & Approach
I led the frontend UI revamp initiative, working closely with the engineering team to establish a scalable Design System and modernize the frontend architecture with Ant Design. This involved:
Challenge
When I joined, meepShop lacked a Design System, leading to fragmented UI components, inconsistent design patterns, and inefficiencies in collaboration. Each page had its own design language, and the absence of a shared component library made scaling and maintaining the product increasingly difficult.
Impact
Leading meepShop’s design systems initiative by formalizing our practice and culture of systems thinking has benefitted our teams in multiple ways:
Building the System
To ensure seamless collaboration between design and development, I took the initiative to audit all platforms. This allowed me to effectively facilitate the reuse of design system styles and components, and to drive the alignment of our design libraries with code repositories.
Design Libraries
Documentation & Guidelines
Documentation & Guidelines
Implement
The introduction of a Design System significantly improved the product’s visual coherence and interaction consistency, ensuring a seamless user experience across different modules and pages.
