The design system team consisted of 1 product designer and 1 UX developer. My role as the product designer is to define the components & variants, write documentation, and support our UX developer to build components into React components.

A well-established design system is a shared vocabulary between design and engineering teams, and is the key to a lean design and engineering team at LEX. From day one, we built and evolved our design system in tandem with our MVP. By the time our MVP launched, we had completed all the fundamental components necessary for complete and smooth user interactions, as well as composite components tailored to our business needs. Our engineers also converted these components into React components in Storybook. This robust infrastructure saved us a lot of time from tedious work, and enabled us to scale and iterate much faster during the growth-product phase. With only one designer and two front-end engineers, we were able to design and deploy major product features on a monthly basis.