Scaling workforce operations through a unified design system
Soniq IQ is an all-in-one B2B SaaS app that centralises professional workforce cleaning operations.
Soniq GmbH, the client, had a new brand ready to adapt but the product hadn't been updated to reflect it. UI was inconsistent across features and the existing design system couldn't keep up with the pace. From there, I joined to co-lead the migration to a new design system with the brand designer, and later used that foundation to design the core workforce features that operations teams rely on daily.
Challenge
Applying a new brand without rebuilding everything
Soniq IQ needed to reflect the new brand but rebuilding from zero wasn't viable. The first real challenge was finding a way to migrate the design system in Figma, with tokenized components that would match development, and avoid to completely stopping product delivery.
AntDesign served as the framework of the new component library primarily because:
From system to product
A unified foundation that got feature delivery back on track
With a shared foundation set up in Figma, designers had everything in place to update UX flows from the previous system to the new branded one. This brought consistency and speed, and freed up the team to review major workforce flows like Scheduling, Timesheets and Absences.
Learnings
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Criteria well defined makes the difference
Before deciding on Ant Design, we assessed multiple frameworks against concrete criteria: speed, learning curve, cost, and component coverage. Having the team involved from the start made the decision so much easier to defend.