ResearchGate Design Tools
End-to-end toolchain for product designers.
From '17-'20 I built a suite of custom tools to enable our designers, copywriters and engineers to work in close collaboration, centered around our design system, Nova.
To my knowledge ours was one of the first design systems to be integrated into the actual tools designers were using. We achieved this through a plugin that let designers write JSX to define components.
To ensure we made the correct interventions, the product development process was closely mapped before deciding what tooling to focus on.
A design handoff tool was created that spoke the language of our design system. This was passed to engineers who could then copy and paste the JSX.
I also built a design linting extension, providing designers a feedback loop to validate their work before handing it over.
On top of this, I also built a custom frontend for Jira that pulled in design handoffs from Google Drive, giving our product teams a one stop shop when building out features.