Design Philosophy of Complex Infrastructure Systems (Cont.)
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The CloudNatix application is build upon the foundation of our advanced design system.
Overview
The design system we use at CloudNatix has played an important role in our product development process. This remarkable approach allow us to simplify infrastructure management for customers. We're proud of the UI that we created for our application and value how our design system has allowed our team to craft a beautifully designed experience for our customers. In our previous blog post, we discussed some of the challenges our product and design management team has faced, and how the design system has assisted to meet those challenges. This week we will continue to look at those challenges and how we have created meaningful solutions thanks to our design system.
One of the other challenges our design system poses has to do with the fact that it requires ongoing maintenance. Our design system assets are updated as our software development libraries advance and technology changes. IBM’s Carbon Design and React are two of the technologies that inform our front-end and design system. As these libraries advance we update templates and the CloudNatix application. This can require effort and must be included in our development cycles. Truly, the massive time-saving that design systems offer is worth the effort. In this case, we allocate recurring time and cycles to tend to the company design system, a price that is well worth paying in the long run. With this perspective, our team is able to move forward successfully.
Benefits
Design plays an ever more essential role in the software development process. While this is certainly a welcome development, it also poses additional challenges. Design systems are tools that allow us to move forward and solve those challenges successfully. One of the key challenges concerns consistency. Our design team’s job is ensuring a similar user interface across all user journeys. Another one of the challenges our team faces revolves around getting to market quickly. With so much software being created and designed, we rely on this essential tool to iterate quickly. More so, reinventing the wheel for every challenge does not scale. This is especially true for startups that are scaling at a fast pace.
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