Now the exciting part, pulling this all together, clearly and succinctly! We will be collating all the work you have been developing from the previous articles of this series, modelling the commercial benefits and packing the whole narrative into our pitch!

The priority, scope, and sequence of delivery will dictate your resource profile and in-turn your spend as you the seed of your design system. Realising value early and iteratively is critical to the success and future tranches if required to scale your design system.

In this article, we will explore some of these domains to inform likely procurement, capital-intensive, and or operational investments and costs to inform your design system business case.

It’s important to consider the breadth of your design system offering, who the audiences are, how it works, what value it drives and how it is architected through the full stack of the business.

This is part one of a five-part series dedicated to building a Design System business case and ensure your design system is amongst the 40% that are successful.