Senior Design System Architect
shopping.com
Apr 2009
Oct 2011
PROJECT OVERVIEW
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Product and Engineering teams lacked a cohesive scalable style guide and component library, negatively impacting sprint efficacy.
PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES
Reduce duplicate work and make valuable sprint time more productive.
Author initial company style guide at speed and scale.
Make application deployment process more efficient, productive and humane.
THE CHALLENGES
Design team attrition over burdened remaining staff, making it difficult to focus on important deliverables. Lack of empathy between stakeholders created communication friction, which eroded trust and compromised important projects. Delivering the style guide was occurring along more important 'keeping the lights on' projects, so we were building the plane as we were flying it.
GOALS AT A GLANCE
- Reduce Engineering Bugs
- Reduce design cycle time
- Improve sprint efficiency
- Reduce Engineering Budget
- 15%
- 30%
- 25%
- 10%
TEAM
- Senior UX Designer
- Creative Director
PROJECT TOOLS + SKILLS
- Adobe CS
- Agile Methodologies
- Component Libraries
- Profit Strategy