Interactive Business Case for Compulse360 Design System

Design systems have objectively proven their value well past the point of debate.

Notable benefits include better product consistency, improved accessibility, easier design / dev handover, and faster onboarding.

But efficiency is by far the standout value of design systems. A healthy design system delivers incredible returns on efficiency alone.

See examples of companies
that have deployed a design system
in their organisation:

Spotify

“Encore resulted in a 35% reduction in the time required to develop new features. The unified design language and reusable components also led to a more cohesive user experience.”

Encore is the internal project name used for Spotify's design system.

Intercom

“Our design system helped cut down design review times by 40%. The gained consistency & clarity improved cross team collaboration and reduced product development cycles.”

IBM

“We have experienced a 30% increase in development speed after implementing the Carbon Design System. The system reduced the need for custom code and streamlined processes across multiple products.”

Figma

“We found that when participants had access to a design system they completed their objective 34% faster than without a design system.”

See the cost & velocity impact of adopting
a design system for Compulse360:

A design system team of 4 supporting a Dev team of 40 people would need ~2% increase of efficiency to break even.

Break even is the percentage of the design system team VS product teams.

Design System team: employees building the Design System.
Dev Team: all employees impacted by the Design System adoption (designers, developers, QA engineers, and product managers)

At 20% efficiency gain, 40 consumers perform closer to 260. That would be a net gain of 55 consumers, or a 11x return on investment.

Gained workers is the product of total consumers and efficiency, minus the size of the design system team.

Based on a average cost of $100,000, a net gain of 55 consumers would result $8Min annual savings.

Annuals savings is the product of gained consumers and mean salary.

If the company’s revenue per employee is $100,000, those additional 55 consumers results in an increase of $27M in annual revenue.

Annual revenue is the product of gained consumers and annual revenue per employee.

Based on efficiency alone, this outlined scenario exceeds $35M in annual net value.

Annual net value is the sum of annual savings and annual revenue.

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Daniel Mihai

Business Case for Compulse360 Design Systems