Project Alpha
A design system built from the ground up for a fast-growing SaaS platform.
· Acme Corp · Lead Designer & Developer
Design Systems React TypeScript
Overview
Project Alpha was a comprehensive design system initiative for Acme Corp’s flagship product. The goal was to create a unified component library that would serve multiple product teams while maintaining consistency and accessibility.
Challenge
The existing product had grown organically over several years, resulting in inconsistent patterns, duplicated components, and accessibility gaps. Teams were spending significant time reinventing solutions that already existed elsewhere in the product.
Approach
- Audit — Catalogued all existing UI patterns across the product
- Consolidate — Identified common patterns and created a canonical set
- Build — Developed a token-based component library in React + TypeScript
- Document — Created comprehensive usage guidelines and migration paths
Results
- Reduced UI development time by 40%
- Improved accessibility score from 72 to 96 (Lighthouse)
- Unified 3 product teams under a single design language
Live Component Demo
This is a React island embedded in MDX — it's interactive!
ReactIslandDemo
Tech Stack
- React + TypeScript
- Storybook for documentation
- CSS custom properties for theming
- Automated visual regression testing