In my role as UX Designer for The University of Alabama in Huntsville’s (UAH) web team, I had the good fortune of attending the Adobe MAX conference in 2020.  I knew that UAH lacked a design system for rapid prototyping during the design process, and after seeing Mick Champayne’s workshop on creating design systems with Adobe XD, I took the initiative to create one.  

The impact on my team’s efficiency was immediate.  It made us faster and more efficient, able to visualize and deliver high-fidelity, interactive pictures of what their web projects might look like.  It also made it far easier to revise, speeding up the design process in order to get schematics to the production team as quickly as possible.