Kite Design System

The work I accomplished on the My Spectrum App ultimately lead in the decision for my internal transfer to the Design Systems team.

How Kite was born

Before a centralized design language was created, designing was the wild west instead of a usine a consistent system across the board. Our company consisted of many different products under one hood including: mobile, web, and tv. All of these separate teams were designing without communicating with other platforms and each product looked different than the last.

How to fix the problem

The goal of the Kite design system was to design and create basic component styles and visual identities as well as to create a collaborative environment between teams. Everyone needed to start talking to each other!

My part in the story

My responsibilities ranged from completing market research, component design, assisting in designing of our internal site, writing and publishing documentation guidelines for teams to easily adopt, maintaining our UI Kit we released biweekly, and developing a systemized icon language that could be used from mobile apps to the 10-foot experience.

Along the way we failed. A LOT. We learned from those mistakes and continuously grew into a functional system that teams were adopting. It was apparent that teams understood the importance of communicating with one another. As our system grew you could see overall consistency through out each product.