The client is a global access and security company operating across dozens of countries. Following a corporate merger and a transition to headless content management, its digital teams needed a common foundation for designing and building products at global scale.
A global design system that cut component delivery time by 66%
After moving to a headless CMS, a global company needed a shared way to build digital products across dozens of markets. Tailor Hub connected Figma, Storybook and production code in a design system that reduced duplicated engineering work, improved governance and cut delivery times by up to 66%.
Client
Challenge
The new CMS gave countries and product teams more freedom to manage their content, but it did not define how their digital experiences should be built.
Teams still recreated the same interface patterns across products. Senior engineers spent time rebuilding buttons, forms and modules that already existed elsewhere in the company. Figma and production drifted apart. Accessibility fixes, tests and maintenance were repeated across multiple implementations of almost the same component.
As the platform expanded into more countries and use cases, every new implementation risked adding more duplicated work and inconsistency.
What we built
Tailor Hub built the engineering layer of a shared design system:
A custom API integration carries design tokens from Figma into the frontend, keeping colour, typography and spacing aligned with production code.
Reusable components cover everything from basic interface elements to complete modules, including their states, accessibility behaviour and tests.
Storybook provides a living reference shared by design, engineering, product and other stakeholders.
Product teams consume the same maintained component library instead of rebuilding common interface work inside each application.
People underrate how much engineering sits under a design system. A designer can spec something beautiful in Figma, but making it real, accessible, consistent and always in sync with the code doesn't come for free. It's our senior frontend job to make it happen.
Luca Manfredi - Tech Lead at Tailor Hub
Impact
The design system changed the starting point for new digital work. Teams could build with production-ready components and focus their engineering time on the parts specific to each product.
In one measured delivery, work initially estimated at three weeks was completed in one. The saving came from reusing components that had already been designed, developed, tested and documented.
Accessibility behaviour, testing and maintenance could also be handled in the shared library instead of being repeated across multiple implementations. Storybook gave design, engineering and product teams a common reference based on working components.
Local teams retained the flexibility to address the needs of each market while working from the same technical standards as the rest of the organisation.