UX Platform Team
With App Refresh project in 2019, I started to step up in leading project and leading a team. Really focus myself on honing leadership skills and exploring another profession track - people management. My passion always lies to making impact to the product. The most fascinating part I found in leadership is that you have a group of people working together to achieve the common goal. Set up a great environment, team culture and vision.
Timeline
2019 - 2020 (2 years)
My Role
Product Design Lead
Team Members
2 App DS designers, 2 Web DS designers
My Leadership Principles
Crafting A Shared Vision
Co-creating the vision with the team and embedding the vision into operations. Always reflecting back to maintain focus and alignment around the vision. Breaking down vision to roadmap and delegating ownership.
Bringing People Together
Forging relationships and building trust with your core team. Engaging beyond your core network. And supporting and developing individuals.
Unlocking Potential
Knowing your people and their stretch goals. Identifying opportunities and filling the gaps. Setting an example for your team fostering freedom and autonomous so all can lead.
Co-create the team vision with members
Only when you involve the the team in the process and have them feels empowered and part of the journey, then you can start unblocking the team’s potential and have them feel ownership. Also being a leader we have to share our challenges and have them become partner of the solution.
Rolled out the design language with 50+ designers
We designed a series of educational workshops to help designers onboard. The team ran 20+ workshops to provide training on design language, components, and patterns. This also then turned into an official onboarding session new joiners need to attend. Eventually accelerated the adoption rate on product and level up designer’s system thinking.
Key Team Milestone
2019 Q3 - establishing the team
Started with app design system team of 3 people and built up the business case to establish web design system team
2019 Q4 - system education
Launched a series of workshops on system education and DS onboarding with 40+ designers
2020 Q2 - Ops optimization
Migrated design, product and IT team to figma. The aim is to:
saving cost
cross team collaboration - better team overview
optimize design process and efficiency
Library usage had a strike after figma migration
Measurement of Success
96% Design Systems Adoption
Meaning 96% of components/variants had been re-used over 1 time in designers’ file per month
80% of Framework Readiness on UI Kit
Meaning component library can cover 80% if core page, the rest of 20% are unique business cases which can not be reused
70% of Framework Readiness on Documentation
Meaning 70% of the components have detail documentation, design pattern and dos and donts
My takeaway