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Design Facelift

Crafting modernized, responsive, and developer-friendly Figma files

During my internship at PLUS, I revamped its outdated UI by applying a newly updated design system, incorporating components and local variables, ensuring responsiveness, and delivering detailed handoff documentation.

ROLE

UX Designer (Design Systems)

TEAM

Individual Project

DURATION

May 2024 (1 Week)

WHAT I DID

Design Systems

Responsive Design

Handoff Documentation

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Before & After Design Facelift

Context

CONTEXT

Updated Design System Ready for Rollout

PLUS design system team revamped the entire design system and each designer was tasked with updating designated pages using the updated UI components, ensuring responsiveness of each frame, and handoff to developers for implementation.

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Design Systems Snippet: Component Documentation

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Design Systems Snippet: Tokens & Variables

UI Update

PROCESS

Out with the Old UI

First, I selected the appropriate UI components from the design system and tailored their variables based on the documentation and the specific content of the page.

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Example Updated UI: Title, Form, Button

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Variables Of Component Set In Figma

Spacing

Mark the distance

Then, I ensured the spacing between UI components was aligned with the local variables and established spacing conventions set in the design systems.

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Responsiveness

Make Things Responsive!

Finally, I adhered to the internal responsive design guidelines, using a 3-step checker to ensure adaptability across different screen sizes and breakpoints.​

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Internal Responsive Design 3-Step Checker

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Final Responsive Deliverable (Example Screen)

Handoff

FINAL DELIVERABLE

I documented all UI and spacing changes for quick front-end adoption.

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