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As a consultancy, we’re committed to solving big challenges—anything from building medical companion apps that pass strict CE certification requirements, to creating a leading multinational retailer’s design system that governs all their regional sites. Working with enterprise clients on time-sensitive product launches means that we can’t afford to choose tools that slow us down. With Figma, our creative team has an intuitive tool that works at our speed, and gives our designers the flexibility to work in an Agile way.
When planning for a digital transformation, many executives focus on an “end state”, or an idealized picture of when the transformation is done, and all changes are complete. But transformations are an evolutionary process, and getting to the “end” isn’t possible—the rate of change in technology, fluctuating market demand and changing consumers preferences are the only constants.
While becoming a digital enterprise is an imperative for most organizations in the 21st century, there are no set-it-and-forget-it shortcuts to get you there.
Digital transformation may be the buzzword du jour, but it’s more than just hype. Done well, it has the power to reduce your operating costs, improve time-to-market and open new product lines and revenue streams for your business.
While early reports on the pandemic showed doom and gloom for global retail, some surprising trends are emerging.
There's now no longer any time for executives to put off their digital transformation until next quarter.
Design systems are often promoted or explained using technical language familiar to designers and developers who will use the system — that was our tactic when we started talking about design systems two years ago, and partnering in the community of practitioners. However, this approach fails to reach perhaps the most important audience: The decision-makers who will decide whether to commit the business’s resources to implementing a design system.
Your design system is a living artifact. Like a spoken language, it will evolve over time as it is used by new groups—retaining its basic structure, but with new additions spurred by the speakers themselves.