A design system to build design systems
Since Belka was founded, 8 years ago, we’ve helped some of the most successful Italian digital product companies build design systems to help them launch faster, make better decisions, and make their users happier.
We’ve gotten quite good at it, and these days we’ve even come up with a pretty comprehensive methodology. We have learned from others too, with our own Sara Fazzini and Maria Sole Biondi interviewing designers, developers and managers to uncover how leading European and North American companies approach design systems.
But this wasn’t always the case. It’s been a long process of trial and error, and we’ve had to figure out a bunch of things over the years. This post is about how we got here, and what we learned on the journey.
The first time we got our hands on a design system was for a large company with a super successful digital product that had been around for a long time.
