Design Systems: Component Optimization
Role: Contributor
Regular component optimizations play a crucial role in enhancing design efficiency and consistency. By strategically refining individual components, we ensure compliance with latest guidelines, reduced redundancy, and improved overall performance in both the UI kit and the live site. These optimizations contribute to a more cohesive and scalable design system.
Hero/Banner Optimization
Objectives:
Improve accessibility & readability
Eliminate delivery of separate image assets for desktop & mobile
Eliminate the need to maintain two components (Hero and Banner)
Address need for additional variants to accommodate promotional offers
Reduce poor image clipping
Improve photo shoot times, post production and reduce resource costs
Improve guidelines and documentation
Tile Optimization
Objectives:
Audit and optimize tile component structure/variants
Improve site experience and product findability
Address stakeholder requests for added promotional value
Build a simplified framework of tile themes and related documentation for use