A design system that two product teams could actually agree on.

Details

Role:: Design Systems Designer
Timeline:: 2024 · ongoing
Skills:: UI, Tokens, Documentation, Figma
Team:: Cross-functional, 2 product teams

Overview

Lumen is the shared design system behind a growing product suite. I built the token foundation, the core component set, and the documentation that made adoption stick across two teams with different habits.

Tldr

A system is only real once people stop working around it.

I started with tokens and the five components everyone reinvents, wrote usage docs alongside each, and ran adoption as a relationship — not a mandate.

Lumen

Outcome

Two teams, one language — and far fewer one-off components.

Within a quarter, new screens were built from Lumen by default. The token layer made a later light/dark pass almost free.