47 BUTTON STYLES IS NOT A SYSTEM.

Design inconsistency is a tax on every team that touches your product. We build design systems that create visual coherence, speed up development, and give your team a shared language that actually holds together at scale.

Boulder, CO · Design Systems · Component Libraries
50%
Faster Time-to-Market with a Design System
30-40%
Less UI Development Time
47+
Button Variants in a Typical Unsystemized Product

INCONSISTENCY IS COSTING YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW.

01

Every Page Looks Like a Different Product

Your marketing site uses one type scale. Your app uses three others. The checkout flow has its own button styles. Your onboarding screens were built by a contractor two years ago and nobody touched them since. Users feel it, even if they can't name it.

02

Rebuilding the Same Things Over and Over

Every new feature starts with building a modal, a form, a data table from scratch. Designers redraw components they've drawn a dozen times. Engineers rewrite logic that already exists somewhere else. The team is burning hours on work that should already be done.

03

Design and Engineering Always Out of Sync

Figma says one thing. Production looks like another. Developers make visual decisions because the specs are ambiguous. Designers update components and nobody tells engineering. The handoff is a constant source of friction and rework on both sides.

AUDIT. BUILD. GOVERN.

01

Audit What Exists

We inventory your current UI across every surface: marketing, product, mobile, email. We catalog every component variation, identify patterns worth keeping, and map the debt that needs to go. You see the full picture before we build anything.

02

Design and Build the System

Foundations first: color, typography, spacing, and motion as design tokens. Then components: buttons, forms, navigation, data display, feedback states. Everything built in Figma and in production-ready code, documented so your team can extend it without breaking it.

03

Set Up for Long-Term Health

A design system that nobody maintains is a design system nobody uses. We establish ownership, contribution workflows, versioning, and review processes so the system grows with your product instead of drifting away from it.

THE PARTS THAT MAKE IT WORK.

Design Tokens

The foundation everything else inherits from. Color, typography, spacing, border radius, shadow, motion. Defined as tokens that live in one place and propagate everywhere. Change a brand color once, it updates across your entire product.

Component Library

Production-ready components built in your framework. Buttons, inputs, modals, navigation, tables, cards, feedback states. Each component covers all its variants, states, and edge cases. Accessible by default, documented with usage examples.

Pattern Library

Reusable layouts and interaction patterns assembled from components. How to build a settings page. How to structure an onboarding flow. How to display dense data tables. The answers to questions your team will ask when they sit down to build something new.

Governance Model

Clear ownership, contribution guidelines, and decision-making processes. Who can add components. How proposals get reviewed. How deprecations get communicated. The infrastructure that keeps a design system alive instead of turning into another abandoned Notion doc.

WHAT CONSISTENCY BUYS YOU.

Real outcomes from organizations that made the investment in a shared design language.

2x
Faster Feature Delivery

A SaaS product team reduced time-to-design for new features by half after consolidating to a shared component library. Engineers stopped asking design for specs on components that already existed.

40%
Less UI Rework

By closing the gap between Figma and production with token-driven components, a digital product team cut visual QA cycles significantly. What shipped matched what was designed the first time.

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Of Truth for Brand

A multi-product company unified brand expression across their web app, mobile app, marketing site, and email campaigns using a single token architecture. Brand updates now propagate everywhere in minutes, not months.

"We used to argue about buttons every sprint. Now we don't. The system made those decisions for us and freed the team to focus on actual product problems."

Digital Product Company

COMMON QUESTIONS.

What's included in a design system engagement?

A full engagement includes an audit of your existing UI patterns, a design token architecture, a component library built in your framework of choice, a pattern library with usage guidelines, and a governance model so the system stays healthy over time. You get Figma files, production-ready code, and documentation your team can actually use.

Should we build a custom system or use an existing one like Material or Radix?

It depends on your brand and product complexity. Most teams benefit from adopting a solid open-source foundation (Radix, shadcn, Headless UI) and layering their design tokens and components on top. That approach gets you 60-70% of the way there without building from scratch. We'll help you make that call based on what you actually need.

How do you handle governance so the system doesn't go stale?

Governance is the part most agencies skip and it's why design systems fail. We define clear ownership, contribution processes, versioning policies, and review cadences. You'll know exactly who approves new components, how deprecation works, and how to communicate changes to consuming teams.

How much does a design system cost?

Most engagements fall in the $30K-$80K range for a complete system including audit, design tokens, component library, pattern library, and governance setup. Larger enterprise systems with complex multi-brand requirements run higher. We scope clearly upfront so there are no surprises.

How long does it take to build a design system?

A focused MVP system covering your core component set takes 6-10 weeks. A comprehensive system with full documentation, multiple themes, and governance tooling runs 12-16 weeks. We typically recommend shipping a lean v1 fast and iterating, rather than trying to build everything before anyone uses it.

DESIGN SYSTEMS INSIGHTS.

READY TO STOP REINVENTING THE SAME COMPONENTS?

Tell us where the inconsistency is hurting you most and we'll show you what a system built for your scale looks like.

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