Plate III. Consulting, 2024
Design System Audit
Six-week engagement with an early-stage startup to assess their component library against their product roadmap, and to propose a path forward.
Context
The team had grown a component library organically and was spending a disproportionate share of design and engineering time reconciling inconsistencies. They wanted an outside read on whether to invest in hardening what they had or rebuild on a foundation like Radix.
Process
- Interviews with design, eng, and PM leads
- Component inventory and usage audit (grep + Figma library stats)
- Side-by-side cost model for the two paths
- Final recommendation with staged migration plan
Outcome
Recommended hardening with targeted replacement of three high-volume primitives. The roadmap was adopted; six months in they’d retired two of the three.