Halo Design System

A business proposal
by LSEG/Refinitiv

When I first joined LSEG/Refinitiv, I was leading two different teams. My role was split equally between running the global design operation of the team and leading the efforts to expand and redesign/re-imagine the Halo Design System.

Project Check

Tools: Sketch, Keynote
Team: 2 UX designers
My Role: UX Lead & Manager
Timeline: 4 weeks for the proposal (however the Design System is still expanding!)

Overview

The DS serves as the backbone of UX, UI and development for products such as Workspace. However it was up until 2020 only a style library and nothing more. My task was to re-imagine and make the DS the system that holds all designs currently for workspace and other LSEG/Refinitiv products run better and faster through the design lifecycle. The following is a case I worked on as a proposal for the next generation of our DS.

The Challenge

Create a visionary proposal where everyone; the design team, the key stakeholders, the business and the engineering team can understand the key benefits, structure and process of a token based design system and rally behind to get the necessary funding to create a larger team to work on this initiative.