Craft a business case to secure buy-in from key stakeholders and quantify the ROI of your design system initiative.
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Getting buy-in and funding for your design system from key stakeholders requires building a compelling business case. Executives need to understand why they should resource a design system initiative over something else and how it'll help the organization achieve company goals.
Follow our 4-step process and download our presentation deck template to craft the business case for design systems.
— Highlight current workflow inefficiencies
— Identify areas of improvement in collaboration
— Communicate inconsistencies in design and their impact
— Identify executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners
— Conduct interviews to better understand their priorities
— Cater business case to stakeholder needs
— Research benchmarks and implementation methods
— Calculate the cost of building and maintaining the design system
— Forecast impact and cost savings
— Identify the scope and scale of the initial design system
— Develop a project plan with deadlines and owners
— Get buy-in from cross-functional stakeholders
Supernova is a tool that really understands the needs of design systems creators. We’ve had no fun in the past working with other tools’ documentation, but that’s all changed now. It’s easy to use, intuitive, and offers many opportunities to scale in the future. As a single source of truth, it is mind-blowing, efficient, fast, and highly customizable. They also listen to their customers and prioritize their roadmaps to fit their needs which is a great bonus.
We calculate how much money a design system saves your team, by looking at the cost of product development without a design system, as well as the savings from building using Supernova instead of a custom solution.
"We saved over 100 engineering hours in a single quarter... the system’s become something people are genuinely excited about." — JJ Nold, Design System Director at SoFi
"We have a lot of elements, a lot of components, a lot of documentation, a lot of evolution. We would need two or three devs full time to just maintain that documentation website if we weren’t leveraging Supernova." – Simon Bélanger, iceberg Design System manager
"The time saved is incredible — from lightning-fast documentation creation [...] to the magic of automating token and component health status with just one click." — Laura Fehre, Design Manager
"Documented design decisions in Supernova have provided clear answers... It's just like a one-stop shop for all the information that you need." — Charles Kantz, Design System Lead
"When it came to Supernova, the setup was super easy. The barrier to entry to use it and start creating your documentation was low because it's all quite simple." — Anna Chojnacka, Design System Coordinator