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Tessel
Design system for a logistics platform.
The brief
Five product teams were shipping five slightly different platforms. Tessel needed one source of truth that survives real deadline pressure — not a library that looks good in Figma and dies in the sprint.
What we did
- Tokens, components and docs living in one repository
- Figma and code generated from the same token source
- A contribution model with review gates teams actually use
- Density and motion rules for data-heavy screens
Where it landed
142components, one library
5teams shipping from it
0drift in a year of releases
A design system is a product with the hardest users of all: your own colleagues. Tessel treats them like customers.
