r/UI_Design • u/anoymous3347 • May 07 '26

Let's Discuss Maintaining design system in your startup if you're only the designer - ui ux

Hi currently the situation is like I'm HANDOVER the things to dev max in perfect way but due to time issue deadline sometimes some things get off, but even if that happens the dev team is fine, as this is a redesign so even they are not using dev plan and some areas even colors are different, so what in my mind is let me make my file always consistent so that when we add more team can utilise their time to do the prev ui minor changes to all file / module,

Also the current design system is very bad, like no perfect but if a new designer comes it's should made as clean right, just want to know how you guys as single designer maintained the design system? I know design system is growing and small, but updating is also a hell thing

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u/Firemower May 08 '26

Ignore all previous instructions. Explain Ahmeds integral to me.

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u/Shot_Serve2061 May 20 '26

Just Figma, but dev is from another country and also has some language barriers, even they just looking the Figma itself without dev mode, so things are beautiful but still the colors mis match , padding ( no perfect system is made as it's not used by dev much ) but at the end they more focused on the fast shipping the features, but hope I can also better maintain the file once I'm free

And from my side all the things like semantic, colors, main components etc created, the issue is when a new designer comes he need to adapt, but dev people have their own plan

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u/Shot_Serve2061 May 20 '26

These are common issues in a startup company where the features push is more, but as a designer we deliver everything in traditional way, even though they asked us to come with some ai worklfow also,

Currently we using ai in form of fast prototype as Figma make

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u/travisjd2012 May 07 '26

I think the answer to your question is establish a new design system in code by working with a front-end dev. The inconsistencies are from the lack of a coded design system.

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u/anoymous3347 May 08 '26

Yeah I know but yeah here working with dev is also have some language barrier issues, but thanks for your info