Audrey Hacq

→ Pour la version en Français, c’est par ici Design Systems has become a key part of my everyday work… And from the surrounding discussions, it is now the case for many people 😉 After reading Alla Kholmatova’s book last year, I was lucky to attend the first European conference on the subject in March.

From left to right: gap analysis and inventory process images, third photo by Balázs Kétyi from Unsplash. I recently created a case-study for my colleagues in New York about a multi-brand Design System project I worked on, for one of our clients back in London. While gathering information for this presentation, I was inspired to write an article and share my thoughts about what I’ve learned during this year-long experience and how it opened my eyes to the broader picture.

Most of the times we think as complexity as something bad. And I tended to fall in that pitfall myself. Until one day when I was having a conversation with a product manager, and he was showing me how the flight schedule of Schipol Airport in Amsterdam was organised. He was showing me all the tables and data, and how the system worked. And he understood it perfectly, but for me, it looked like a basic and weird excel sheet. Frankly, I couldn’t understand a cent of what he was seeing in it.