Your Design System for a Strong Brand
With a centralized UI/UX system, design and development finally work efficiently together. The result: consistent interfaces, faster releases, and fewer revision cycles – starting at €8,000.
Why Does Your Company Need a Design System?
A design system is a comprehensive set of standards, components, and guidelines that enables consistent and efficient UI/UX design across your entire organization. makandra develops a custom system for you that seamlessly connects design and development and makes your digital products scalable. Whether for start-ups or large enterprise products – we deliver a system that works in the long term.
OUR OFFER: HOW THE DESIGN PROCESS WORKS
1. Kickoff & Audit: In the first step, we get to know your company, your brand, and your products. We analyze existing design patterns, technical requirements, and goals.
2. Strategy & Concept: We develop the architecture of your design system – including color palette, typography, components, interactions, and design principles. Everything is systematically structured and documented.
3. Implementation: We implement the design system – visually (e.g., in Figma) and, if needed, as technical components (e.g., in HTML, CSS, or frameworks like React). We ensure scalability and reusability throughout.
4. Documentation & Handover: The completed system is documented as a “living style guide” and handed over to your teams. We make sure that both design and development can easily access and use it in the future.
5. Support & Further Development (Optional): If desired, we provide long-term support for your design system, integrate new components, or adapt it to evolving requirements.
What do we offer? A modular, scalable service - customized to your company size and goals.
- Audit
- Design system strategy
- Implementation
- Handover
Figma for corporate design systems
Figma is a modern UI design platform that enables seamless, collaborative teamwork - from design to prototyping. UX designers can create, edit and share designs online in real time. The platform is ideal for building comprehensive design systems. At makandra, we have been working successfully with Figma for years and support you in the introduction, development or migration of your design system - as well as in the structuring of larger team setups and accounts.
Components of a design system
We create a structured design system for your website in Figma with all the important components:
- Design basics such as color palettes, typography, spacing and design tokens.
- Basic UI components such as buttons, input fields, dropdowns and form layouts.
- Navigation elements such as menus, tabs, breadcrumbs and mobile navigation.
- More complex UI patterns such as cards, modals, tables and tooltips.
- Layout fundamentals such as responsive grids, containers and sample layouts for different screen sizes.
All elements are consistently structured, clearly named and directly usable for design and development.
Practical examples
In this project (Greenzero), we developed our own design system together with makandra. The UI/UX team did a fantastic job.
Frequently asked questions: FAQ Design system
A design system ensures that all of a company's digital products have a uniform design - both visually and technically. It contains all central design rules and UI components, often also directly as code.
That depends on the scope, your requirements and existing structures. We will clarify all the details in an initial consultation and prepare a quote. At makandra, we offer packages from as little as 8000 euros.
A design system serves as a “single source of truth” for the corporate design. Changes - to colors or components, for example - are adopted system-wide, which minimizes sources of error and avoids duplication of work. New team members find their way around more quickly as all design elements are centrally available and documented. This speeds up the workflow and increases the quality of your digital products in the long term.
Design systems are often based on the principle of atomic design: digital products are broken down into their smallest units - such as colors, fonts, buttons or layouts. These elements are defined in the design system and managed centrally. Designers and developers access them directly - both in prototyping and in implementation, resulting in consistent UI/UX across all touchpoints.
Sure! We deliver a fully documented system that can be used and maintained internally.okumentiertes System, das intern weiterverwendet und gepflegt werden kann.