01 / The challenge
An e-commerce SaaS platform serving over 100 webshops needed a more scalable way to create customer-specific designs. Each webshop had its own branding, but maintaining separate designs was time-consuming. The challenge was to build one flexible foundation that could support different brands and stay aligned with developed components.
02 / My role
I led the research, structure, and design of the new Figma system. I defined its variable-based setup, designed and redesigned components, and took the lead in deciding which existing components to adapt. I made those decisions in close discussion with the Product Owner and implementation teams.
03 / The approach
I moved away from duplicating complete Figma files for every customer and introduced a shared component library as a single source of truth. The challenge was preserving customer-specific branding, which I solved through research and a plugin-based approach to managing variables. I aligned components and specifications with the Product Owner and front-end implementation teams to make handoff clearer, and trained external design partners to use the new workflow independently.
04 / The outcome
Introduced into new design projects in early 2026, the shared components made branded webshop designs faster to produce and easier to hand off to front-end developers. More consistent, implementation-aligned designs helped developers build pages more quickly and reduced clarification and review effort.