Design systems and design ops

Solita services Design system and design ops

Design systems and design ops

We combine design, development, and transformation consulting to change the way companies work with and benefit from design.

We solve design scalability challenges

Many organisations develop multiple digital applications, services, or channels. The bar for a good user experience is constantly rising, but good design doesn’t scale just by adding more designers. Instead, as digital operations grow, inefficiency and inconsistency often follow. We help organisations build mature design ops practices and design systems that unify design quality and ways of working.

Our expertise

Design systems

A design system is essential for a coherent user experience. It standardises the organisation’s user experience building blocks and ways of working.
Design ops

We help build processes and methods that support designers in creating design that is more consistent and better aligned with business value.
In-house competence scaling

We support in-house roles and teams in upskilling, leveraging design ops, adopting modern design tools, and applying customer-centric design practices.

Read about our clients

Fintraffic Navigating user experience on land, at sea, and in the air: Fintraffic Design System

Raine Luntta Director, Data, Design & Architecture, Fintraffic Railway

What we can do together

Design systems that help build better software

A design system is more than reusable visual elements. A shared design system that exists in code helps teams build better user experiences, faster. Design systems help scale best practices like accessibility – freeing up teams to work on problems specific to them.

Design systems and design ops that go hand-in-hand

A design system is not just a pile of user interface elements. Good user experiences are created by the people who use a design system, not the design system itself. A design system is part of how the organisation works on design, and those ways of working need to be designed, too.

Clarifying how design gets done with design ops models

The more digital design grows within an organisation, the more important it becomes to think about how design teams are built, how design happens in a multivendor setup, what skills are essential in the team, what tools are being used, and how workflows can be their most efficient. We have years of experience in building, coaching, and aligning design teams in complex multivendor environments.

Inhouse design competence scaling

A sense of design community and competence development can significantly increase the appeal and effectiveness of an in-house design team. Our design consultants can provide coaching support and community to in-house teams of any size. We help with tool and workflow adoption, upskilling, and hybrid learning within everyday work to increase in-house design teams’ understanding of customer value, business value, and design methodology.

More insights

Blog A design system without a clear vision and shared ways of working is just a trash heap of forgotten components

Don’t be a stranger! – Contact us.

Iivari Airaksinen Director, Design & Strategy, Solita

[email protected] +358 503 883 911

Design systems and design ops