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Business
Return on Investment (ROI)
Clearly tied to financial value. Is the investment paying off?
Company Scalability
How much did your company's capacity for workload increase after having the Design System?
Brand Consistency Improvement
With a strong foundationDesign System), there will be less work to fix visual differences.The goal is to Increase familiarity with product design and drive repeat usage.
Product
Amount of Libraries / Library usage
How many libraries do you have? How many of them are in use? Figma offers Library usage trends.
The Total Number of Components
This one is easy at the beginning, when you need to track the progress of growing the design system. Later on, you don’t need more components, you need to improve the important ones.
The Total Number Component is Used Across Products.
This one is connected to the adoption rate. You want to reuse the component as many times as possible because you can start saving time.
Amount of Products Using Different Libraries
Design systems are challenging to build and maintain without understanding how designers use them. Figma offers a lot of insights into components and library usage. This helps you measure design system adoption before the product development process. Figma analytics.
Adoption Rate
What % of products use the design system? Compare by departments and teams. The more the design system it's used, the more days are saved.
Usage Statistics
Compare components usage in Figma, Github, your libraries.
Number of Component Detachments (Figma)
If some components are often detached, some user flows/scenarios are missing. Think about improvements.
Average Task Completion Time
The time employees spend on completing the task (for example designing a new component). Try to compare before/after the Design System. How much did the time improve?
Average Time (from an idea) to Market
The time employees spend on completing the user flow. Try to compare before/after the Design System. How much did the time improve?
User Interface Design Consistency
With a strong foundation (Design System), there is less work for fixing visual differences.
Documentation Visits
Are your employees even reading your Documentation?
Amount of Products Using Different Libraries
This one is important. Imagine having a Design System in place, but no one would use it. This KPI shows how many products use the coded components (or libraries in Figma). You want to achieve the highest possible %.
Team Efficiency Improvement
Try to compare workflow before the design system and find out how much time it takes to complete the task/user-flow/app design now.
Accessibility Score
Create an accessible design, so users of diverse abilities can navigate, understand, and use your UI successfully.
Qualitative metrics
Team Efficiency and Productivity Improvement Survey
Don't just compare numbers; send a survey. Do employees have more time for focused work, thinking about flows, etc.?
Tech Debt
After having the Design System in place, there should be less tech debt.
Design Debt
After having the Design System in place, there should be way less UX and Design debt.
Development
Average Task Completion Time
The time developers spend on completing the task. Try to compare before/after the Design System. How much did the time improve?
Linter Warnings
Number should be much lower.
Code Complexity
The goal should be to reuse the code from the Design System and decrease the cost of refactoring.
Adoption
Contributions to the Design System
Design System gets more valuable with a collaborative team.
Participation in Meetings
Who is coming to the Design System "Office hours"? Are people interested in participating?
Adoption Rate
What % of products use the design system? Compare by departments and teams.
