ABOUT

Lead visual designer, tasked with creating a new design language system for Legal & General.

'Rich was on my team at Smart Pension, and he was in charge of creating and maintaining a UI Design System / Pattern Library on a partner programme. He did a great job with it - both in terms of the design (ensuring it was both beautiful and WCAG AA compliant) and in terms of the tooling (we used Sketch's library and resize constrains features which at the time were very new).' Harry Brignull, Head of User Experience

Atomic design
With consideration for a well established brand and working closely and concurrently with the program director, chief technical officer, product owners, business analyst, developers and UX designers, I created an Atomic Design Library that met with Epic specifications.

Rapid prototyping
The Atomic Design Library facilitated rapid, iterative wire-framing for the UX designers and low and high-fidelity prototyping for the UI designers, which in turn allowed us to conduct regular user testing.
To facilitate production and client sign-off on initial sprints, design patterns are demonstrated using key screens and then, latterly, used to populate all the screens constituting a specific user journey. Authorised patterns can be used to speed up the wire-framing and prototyping processes and, if required, can go directly into development.

Continual improvement
Utilising the Agile method, the shared pattern library and InVision's Inspect functionality in development, the Smart team was equipped to streamline the client approval process and meet sprint deadlines.