Title: Pushing the Limits of a Design System

Introduction

To evolve a design system, it's important to understand the needs of product teams. The focus on Layout was chosen as many pages felt like they weren't designed for specific problems. The B2B Customers team was selected as a collaboration partner due to their impactful problem solving potential and pressing deadline.

Defining the Scope

Collaboration began by sketching potential solutions to ramp up context and enable ideation. The most promising ideas were voted on and used to set the stage for the next step.

Balancing System Boundaries

The challenge was to move beyond system boundaries while still maintaining the Polaris design system's look and feel. The solution chosen involved curating page content for ease of use.

Compromises and Scaling Solutions

Compromises were made to maintain the tight deadline, but the team remained steadfast in introducing achievable metrics and insights for merchants to use. A new Polaris layout foundation was also developed to make custom layouts easier to build.

Conclusion

Collaboration showed that ambition and skill exist, but limits need to be known to push beyond them. Play safe only limits growth.