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A design system for SageSure
Skills
UX design, UI design, mentorship, management, strategy and planning
Tooling
Figma, Storybook, zeroheight, Slack, Maze (for surveys)
Deliverables
Component library, documentation, quarterly metrics deck, processes and planning
Tech
React Native for responsive web
Team
1 design lead (myself),1 part time designer and 3 devs supporting a design team of 8 and 20+ devs
Statistics
Based on 9 months of implementation
320% increase in inserts and <.1% detach rate
From ~2k inserts up to ~11k, year-over-year
SUS score of 77 (B+)
100% participation + 75% positive sentiment in the bi-annual survey
233% increase in contributions
Including contributions from engineers and designers
How this was accomplished:
Mentoring: mentor designers in systematic thinking, accessibility, relationship building and design/engineering best practices
Prioritization: balance and address the needs and priorities of various system consumers, fostering community at every opportunity
Context
2022: SageSure Design System is born
A new design system: MGU SageSure embarks on a journey to create a design system
Basics: the team created a Figma library, zeroheight documentation, and a Storybook code repository
2023: Growth
Components & Foundations: the basics of the system were created
2024: New Direction
Rebrand: implementation of the rebrand
Hiring: I was brought on the team and led the establishment of a bi-annual survey, as well as new processes, refactored components and deprecated redundant components
2025: Patterns
Shifting: focus on patterns and metrics