BICO DESIGN SYSTEM

MISSION

The company group BICO consist of 14+ subsidiaries who develop their own respective products and software. Each user may buy products from several subsidiaries and use them in the same workflow.

Provide a common UI design platform to further amplify the BICO brand and reduce the time and cost spent for developing software throughout the company group.

METHOD

Analysis of current situation. Identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the organisation and with existing UI designs. Workshops to plan, ideate and iterate.

Inform and get acceptance from stakeholders, such as designers, developers and superiors. Start small and deploy. Receive feedback as more and more people use it, improve accordingly and iterate.

Continue to power the Design system through a centralized team, making continuous incremental improvements based on external feedback and internal workshops.

OUTCOME

Released during spring 2021 and has since been adopted by more and more development teams across the entire company group.

A comprehensive Design system consisting of UI elements, color, typography, icon libraries and guidelines for layout, spacing, feedback, data visualization and common workflows.

Improved user experience and strengthened product synergies. Happier designers and developers who now have a strong foundation to start from.

An enhanced brand appearence.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Initiated the creation. Background research. Organized, facilitated and planned the project through workshops and meeting discussions.

Setting up and communicating the implementation strategy, and helping designers in the subsidiaries to get started.

Prototyping from first alpha version to full-scale use.

Detailed design of icons, UI elements, color palette, typography and all types of guidelines.