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Managed EngineeringA Design System That Scales With Your Product, Not Against It.
We build the token layer, component library, and documentation that keep design and engineering speaking the same language from the first sprint through the hundredth.
What Does a Design System Project With Us Look Like?
We start from your existing codebase and design files, not a blank canvas. The deliverable is a working system your team can own: tokens, components, documentation, and a process for extending it without breaking it.
We build for the engineers who will implement it and the designers who will use it. The documentation ships alongside the components, not as an afterthought.
- Token architecture that maps to your code variables
- Components built for every state, not just the happy path
- Documentation written for the people doing the work
- A contribution process so the system grows without breaking
Most Design Systems Die in a Wiki
A Notion doc with color tokens is not a design system. We build systems people actually use: connected to code, maintained alongside the product, and extended by the teams shipping it.
Agencies without product thinking
Generic templates on a specific problem
Design System Services, Built to Last.
We build everything from the token layer to the contribution guidelines: the parts that keep your product coherent as it grows, connected to how your team actually ships.
Token Architecture
How the system is structured: naming conventions, tier hierarchy (global, alias, component), and the token architecture that maps directly to CSS custom properties or your platform’s variable system.
Component Specification
The full component specification: anatomy, variants, states, interactions, and the behavior rules that govern how each component responds to content and data conditions it did not expect.
Visual Language and Tokens
The visual language codified as tokens: color, typography, spacing, radius, shadow, and motion. Everything a designer can change, every value an engineer can trace to a decision.
Component Library in Code
The component library implemented in React and Storybook, with each component wired to the token layer so a token change propagates without touching the components individually.
Documentation and Contribution
The contribution workflow, review process, versioning approach, and the plain-language documentation that makes it possible for a designer or engineer new to the team to extend the system without breaking it.
ScoreSmart.ai, product design (opens in a new tab)
Mobile Token Sets
iOS and Android token sets and native component specs, written to platform conventions so your mobile team is extending a shared system, not translating a web one.
How We Build a Design System
Four phases, each with a concrete deliverable. We do not move to the next phase until you have approved what came out of the last one.
Audit and inventory
We audit your existing codebase, design files, and component inventory. What exists, what is consistent, what contradicts itself, and where the biggest gaps are between design and code.
Architecture and scope
We define the token structure, naming conventions, and the component scope: which components go in the system first, in what order, and at what level of completeness.
Build in parallel
We build the token layer, the Figma library, and the code components in parallel so the deliverables are connected from the start, not retrofitted after.
Document and hand over
We document each component, write the contribution process, and run a handoff session so the teams using the system know how to extend it without waiting for us.
Selected Clients’ Success Stories
Design work with the outcome attached. Each card shows what we shipped and what changed for the people using it.
ScoreSmart.ai: product design
A golf performance and coaching platform for players and coaches.
RapidStock: web app design
RapidStock is a B2B inventory and procurement app for businesses that manage stock across sites.
Distilled Books: app design
Distilled Books is our own product: key ideas from nonfiction books in under 15 minutes, to read or listen to, on iOS, Android and CarPlay.
Where We’ve Designed Products.
Five sectors where our design work has shipped into real products used by real people.
Healthcare
Ecommerce & Retail
Fitness & Sports
Business Solutions
On-Demand Solutions
Why Clients Stay with Us, in Their Own Words
Don’t just take our word for it. Read what our clients have to say about their experience working with our agency.
I have been working with Sookshum Labs directly and indirectly for over two years and very much recommend this company. We have been commissioning apps and websites for our clients in the UK using Sookshum Labs development services.
Our journey into the world of eCommerce started around eight months ago. We knew what we wanted but had no idea of how to get there. Sookshum-Labs patiently guided us and worked with us, at our speed, to build an eCommerce store we are proud of. Right from the start we found them to be professional and efficient. They did what they said they would do, on time and as agreed. We never had to push them for deliverables. Their project management was tight, and I felt we were always in control of our project. I would not hesitate to work with Sookshum-Labs again.
We have been working with Sookshum Labs for close to two years and they are outstanding. We have a fairly complex ecommerce site and regardless of the problem, Vipin and his team are fast to respond, fix, and offer solutions that have really helped our company. They are incredibly strong communicators, do excellent and fast work, and I could not recommend them more highly.
I had the pleasure of working with the Sookshum Labs on various projects (Magento – mobile development) and I recommend them for their attention to details and ability to deliver high quality web design. The team went above and beyond our expectations. I would strongly recommend them.
Wonderful experience with Sookshum Labs team. Projects were estimated accurately, team was responsive and clear, launches were smooth and they were able to accommodate some complex customizations and commerce rules. Thank you!
Moved our whole mobile and web build here after our last vendor missed the timeline and blew the budget. Three stores then, five now.
I have worked with Sookshum Labs many times now. I am always impressed by their professionalism, the high quality of their work, and their timeliness in completing work by the due date. I highly recommend them to anyone in need of engineering and development services. Keep up the great work!
Sookshum Labs team are very good at what they do. I recommend them strongly.
Talk to the practice, not a sales queue.
30 minutes with an engineer who has shipped this exact problem before.