A design system streamlines product development, improves cohesiveness and ease-of-use, and boosts team efficiency. Creating a design system requires organizational buy-in, cross-functional collaboration, and team-wide adoption. Yet, little guidance exists on how to evaluate design system needs. Before starting your design system, it's essential to know where your organization stands.
Find out with our Design System Organizational Readiness Survey
(5 questions, 2 minutes)
Design systems aren’t just for the design and engineering teams. Systems decisions span teams, products, and often budgets as executives learn the value and strategic importance of leveraging systems to scale their digital products. When you get design systems right, you unlock your company's potential to build better products faster and spend more time on true digital innovation.
Unprepared
Will struggle to realize the benefits of a design system even if one were in place.
Immature
Initial progress is not yet sustainable and unable to scale.
Established
Locking down scalable, collaborative workflows with sufficient company-wide resources and buy-in.
Mature
Collaborative culture and organizational alignment that supports systematic production at scale.
Knapsack has spent years building and scaling successful design systems for industry giants. Through our experience, we have noticed a readiness curve in how ready companies are for a design systems operation. Where your company exists on the curve indicates where improvement is needed.
Interested in preparing your company for a design system implementation? Take our Design System Organizational Readiness Survey to discover where you need to focus.