UI/UX DesignLuminary HQ · 2024

Luminary Design System

A comprehensive design system for a fast-growing SaaS platform — 240+ components, design tokens mapped to code, and full documentation that cut the team's design-to-development handoff time by 55%.

240+

Components Delivered

−40%

Design Time Reduction

−55%

Dev Implementation

−70%

QA Comments / Week

The Challenge

Luminary's product had grown from an MVP to a 14-feature platform over 3 years with no coherent design system. Every new feature took 2–3 weeks longer than it should because designers and developers were solving the same visual problems repeatedly with inconsistent results.

Our Solution

We audited the existing product and catalogued 340 unique UI patterns, then rationalised them into 240 reusable components in Figma with documented variants, interaction states, and spacing tokens. Design tokens were structured to map directly to CSS custom properties in the codebase. We delivered a live Figma library, a Storybook documentation site, and a migration guide for the existing product.

The Results

First month post-system adoption: average feature design time dropped by 40%, developer implementation time dropped 55%. The design team's weekly QA comments to engineering dropped by 70%. New team members ramped on the system in 2 days vs. the previous 3-week onboarding.

Tech Stack

Tools & Technologies

FigmaStorybookCSS Custom PropertiesFigJamZeroheight

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