Meridian — a design system in the open

Sixty components, one set of tokens, and documentation the engineers actually read.

Dark interface grid study

Three product teams, three button components, three shades of the same blue. The system started as an audit and stayed one for six weeks before a single component was drawn.

Component sheet

Every value lives in one token file that both Figma and the codebase read. A colour changes once, everywhere — which is the only test of whether a design system is real.

Scope

62 components, 340 tokens

Teams

Three products, one platform

Result

New screens ship in days, not sprints

Project details

Client
Meridian
Year
2025
Role
Design systems lead
Services or tools
Tokens, components, documentation
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