Optimise your app with a design system
Do you want to make your product more consistent and take the design of your app to the next level? Then it's time to talk about design systems!
What is a design system?
A design system is a set of guidelines and visual components used to create consistent and beautiful designs for digital products. It consists of a library of design patterns such as buttons, forms, menus, etc., as well as typography and colour styles, together with a set of rules on how and when to use them. Working with a design system ensures a coherent brand identity and an optimal user experience across all platforms.
What makes a design system?
Style Guide and Design Tokens
The style guide contains all the design tokens needed to create UI components such as typography, colours, margins and icons. This is also the basis for a uniform appearance of your entire app, taking your brand into account.
UI Components
The UI components are reusable building blocks that help designers and developers create consistent and cohesive interfaces. These can include buttons, forms, cards, menus, and other interface elements in various states.
Screens
Screens provide a combination of UI components for real use cases. These screens can be combined into user flows and used for development, usage testing or prototyping.
Advantages of a design system
- Consistency: A design system ensures that the design of your product is consistent. This improves the user experience and makes your brand recognisable.
- Efficiency: A design system provides a library of reusable elements which means it’s easier and faster to build new screens.
- Scalability: With a design system it’s easy to scale your product and build new ones in the future. It’s also easier to maintain existing products.
- Accessibility: When building a design system, we make sure that all components and colours are easy for everyone to use.
- Collaboration: Using a design system encourages closer collaboration between designers and developers.
Are you interested in a design system?
If you're not sure where to start, or want to learn more about how your product could benefit from having a design system, don't hesitate to reach out. We are here to help you navigate the complex world of design systems and create a customised solution that meets the unique needs and goals of your app. Let's work together to elevate your product's design and take it to the next level!
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The news app for Berlin and Brandenburg. rbb24 is the high-reach news app of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Our team has been managing the app since 2017 and most recently carried out a complete relaunch. After an intensive consulting and conception phase, a new UX and UI design was developed and implemented with React Native as the development framework. With an App Store rating of 4.6, rbb24 is now one of the leading German news apps.
Huge machines on small screens. The BOMAG Group is an absolute champion in the field of construction machinery manufacturing. We have developed the BMobile app for international sales, which is used both in the office and in the field as well as by sales partners all over the world. In addition to the machine catalogue with all product details, it includes a news section and many helpful features for sales such as document dispatch, offline use, favourites and watchlists.
Interactive access to medical expertise. Springer Medizin Verlag stands for up-to-date, comprehensive and reliable specialist knowledge for all medical disciplines. We support the publisher's ambitious digitisation strategy in several projects. With the Facharzt-Training app, for example, prospective specialists can prepare for their exams. The app also includes encyclopaedias on relevant medical cases and topics.
Professional psychological care on the move. Together with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Swiss Red Cross and other practice partners, we have developed a platform for e-mental health projects. The platform includes a mobile app for iOS and Android and a web-based application for users. Study managers can monitor studies and create content with the help of an administration interface and a content management system. The platform is currently being used in several research projects to evaluate the effectiveness of low-threshold psychological interventions.
Sustainable buildings thanks to smart technology. Brix2bytes is an intuitive and powerful IoT platform that helps clients optimise and increase the sustainability of their buildings in a cost-efficient, data-driven and automatic way. Since the launch of the platform, Hybrid Heroes has been advising on UX and UI design, designing the entire visual interface and managing the complex design system.
Innovative learning through direct feedback. The traditional company PHYWE has been a pioneer in the field of digital teaching and learning aids for years. For science teaching, the company develops numerous different sensors that can be connected and read out via Bluetooth or USB with the measureAPP developed by us. Our cross-platform approach provides teachers and students with a unique learning experience whether they use iOS, Android or Windows devices.
Simple and paperless property management via app. Immocloud is the smart solution for digital property management. For the start-up, we developed the Immocloud Dashboard app for iOS and Android, which serves landlords as a companion app to the comprehensive web application.
We are looking forward to your project!
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