Every screen was designed from scratch. It shows.
Four shades of the same blue, three date pickers, and a button that behaves differently on two screens. This Pod builds the system that stops it, in design and in code, as one thing.
- 60 to 140 story points
- Design and code, in sync
- Documented for whoever comes next
The problem
Design drift is not a taste problem. It is a throughput problem. Every screen designed from nothing is a decision re-made, a component re-built, and a new set of states nobody tested.
It compounds quietly. Two years in, a small change to a form touches eleven copies of that form. The estimate for a trivial request stops making sense to the person who asked for it.
The usual failure is a system that exists only in the design tool. It looks complete. Nothing in the product matches it. It is abandoned within a year. So we build both halves together, or it does not hold.
- Components exist in the design tool and in the codebase, matching
- Tokens drive both, so a color changes in one place
- Documentation covers states and usage, not only appearance
Drift, and what ends it
What this Pod ships
Tokens
Color, type, spacing and elevation defined once and consumed by both the design tool and the code, including the dark theme.
A component library
The components your product actually uses, built with their real states: loading, empty, error, disabled and focused.
Accessibility built in
Contrast, focus order and keyboard behavior handled in the component, so every screen inherits it rather than re-testing for it.
Usage documentation
When to use each component and when not to, so the system survives the people who built it.
We build it from what you already have
We audit the product first and count what is in use. Most products turn out to need about thirty components. Most have somehow built ninety. That audit is what turns an unbounded design exercise into scoped work.
Then we build the real inventory. We start with the components that appear on the most screens, so value arrives in the first week rather than at the end.
What it costs
60 to 140 story points. The drivers are the size of the component inventory and whether the product needs one theme or several. The audit that settles which number applies is part of the Pod, not an extra purchase.
Retrofitting your existing screens onto the new system is scoped separately. It is usually the larger half, and most clients want to do it gradually.
- Points: 60 to 140, committed before work begins
- Audit included, and it is what sets the final number
- Retrofit of existing screens scoped separately, on your schedule
- The system is yours, in your repository and your design tool
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