Most teams want a consistent, professional product — but building a full design system can take months, involve large teams, and require heavy governance.
The Mini Design System solves this by delivering a lightweight, practical set of components and rules that instantly improve clarity, usability, and visual alignment across your product.
This is a fast, focused, one-week engagement designed to help teams move faster, reduce inconsistencies, and support predictable, scalable design without the complexity of a full system.
What This Solves
This service is ideal for products experiencing:
• Inconsistent UI elements
• Multiple design styles created over time
• Slow or unclear decision-making during design
• Visual or behavioral mismatch between screens
• Accessibility issues or contrast problems
• Difficulty handing off designs to engineering
• A growing product team without design governance
A mini design system creates a shared foundation that everyone can use.
What You Get
1. Essential component set
A carefully selected set of foundational components, such as:
• Buttons
• Form fields
• Cards
• Navigation elements (optional)
• Alerts and status indicators (optional)
These are the building blocks of nearly every product interface.
2. Accessible typography and spacing system
You’ll receive:
• A clear typographic scale for headings, body text, labels, captions
• Recommended line heights and weights
• A spacing system (e.g., 4/8/16/24 scale)
• Rules that improve readability and hierarchy
This ensures your product feels consistent and easy to use.
3. WCAG-compliant color palette
You get a simple, accessible palette including:
• Primary, secondary, and accent colors
• Neutral grays for structure
• Success, warning, and error states
• Contrast-tested combinations that meet WCAG AA
No more guessing whether colors are accessible.
4. Interaction rules and behavior guidelines
Clear rules that define:
• Hover, focus, active, and disabled states
• Form validation behavior
• Error messaging patterns
• Motion/transition guidance (optional)
• Expected behavior across devices
These help designers and engineers build with confidence.
5. Documentation in Notion or Figma
All components and rules are documented in a clean, easy-to-use format.
The documentation includes:
• Visual examples
• Usage notes
• When-to-use guidance
• Do/Don’t examples (optional)
• Downloadable assets in Figma
This makes onboarding new team members much easier.
Delivery Timeline (1 Week)
Day 1 – Review existing UI and gather product examples
Day 2–3 – Build core components and typographic/spacing system
Day 4 – Create color palette and interaction rules
Day 5 – Documentation in Notion or Figma + final delivery session
You walk away with a ready-to-use mini design system your team can adopt immediately.
Pricing
€2,350 – €5,850
Factors affecting cost:
• Number of components needed
• Level of documentation requested
• Accessibility depth
• Additional interaction patterns
• Mobile variations
Even at the higher range, this service provides enormous long-term value by reducing inconsistencies and improving team efficiency.
Best For
• Startups and scale-ups
• SaaS teams growing quickly
• Products without a formal design system
• Teams struggling with inconsistent UI
• Companies preparing for a redesign or expansion
• Organisations training new designers or developers
This is a strong foundation that supports every future design decision.
Why This Works
This system is based on your expertise designing:
• A full-scale design system for 790+ learning modules at King’s College London
• Long-term patterned UX for LMS and EdTech platforms
• High-traffic public-sector systems
• Data-heavy product interfaces
Clients benefit from proven, scalable design practices — without needing to create everything from scratch.
Get Started
If your product feels inconsistent, visually noisy, or difficult to maintain, a Mini Design System will bring clarity and structure in just one week.
Email: info@digitugi.eu
WhatsApp: +44 785 668 4216
Location: London, UK
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