Design System 2022-Ongoing

Building a design system from scratch.

When I joined Messari, I built Messari's first component library by myself. Later, as our team grew, I helped refine our designs and introduce best practices to limit design debt.

One interesting thing to note: at Messari, we use Observable to create realistic charts in our mock ups. It's a real game changer when working with large amounts of data viz.

  • Design

    Blake (lead), 3 mid-level designers, 1 design director

  • Engineering

    2 FE

  • Product

    Design performs PM duties 🙂

  • Timeline

    Initial 3-week sprint; Ongoing maintenance

  • Users

    Messari Engineers; all end users

  • Stakeholders

    Product, Engineering, Company Leadership