Case study
Design system architecture for a multi-brand government platform
Context
Joined a greenfield engagement early, as visual designs and wireframes were still being finalized, and began planning and architecting a design system meant to be extensible enough to serve multiple client engagements, not just a single product.
Problem
The organization spanned multiple distinct brand identities across multiple platforms, and needed a single design system flexible enough to support all of them — an enormous surface area of visual design to reason with, with changes arriving continuously from many stakeholders that had to be reconciled into one coherent, extensible system.
Contribution
Helped architect a token-based theming layer, packaged and distributed as its own standalone, versioned package so any brand could consume the same underlying system and re-skin it through tokens alone. Alongside that, architected the component library itself — primitives, composed components, and theming utilities — and personally built a large share of the components. Worked closely with the design team throughout, integrating incoming visual designs into the library as the system evolved rather than treating design and build as separate phases.
Outcome
The system was adopted across three separate brands within the organization, each themed through the shared token layer rather than needing its own rebuilt component set — and it's still maintained and in use today.