Solargis is a growing business providing an online platform with advanced data analytics helping solar power projects from pre-feasibility and planning to operations and management. The platform includes reliable weather forecasting leading to energy production simulation that enables seamless integration to the energy market.
„As we have faced issues with maintainability and development speed, ableneo has provided us with dedicated Design System team closely cooperating with UX and business departments with focus to prepare "lego bricks", as we used to call our DS. This enabled us to develop faster, remove code waste and align design expectations with preserving visual representation of the company. We have achieved rapid delivery increase in building applications UI. Today, there is no questions whether to start with DS, rather why haven't we started earlier?"
Summary
We assisted Solargis to improve the efficiency of their user interface (UI) development, reducing code waste and shortening the implementation time. In addition to easier visual identity maintenance, adopting a design system enabled the company to focus on product innovation and customer needs.
Challenge
Motivation to change
The company faced issues with development speed and maintainability of the UI consistency and sought to improve it.
Solution
How we addressed it
Ableneo helped Solargis’es team to adopt a Design System approach, including the usage of new tools like Storybook or Figma.
The project work included:
- Creation and documentation of the Design System documentation.
- Enabling a multi-disciplinary communication among business, design and development teams.
- Implemented 50 UI components and integrated them in the clients’ apps.
- UI code reviews.
Tools & means
- Angular
- Angular Material
- AG Grid
- Material Design
- Storybook
- Figma
- Jest
Outcomes
What has changed
Adopting a design system approach resulted in faster UI development and aligned design expectations with the code.
The result was a 95% reduction in CSS code and a 20% decrease in UI implementation time, empowering Solargis to focus on what truly matters – innovation and customer needs.