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Verizon Design System
A foundational design system supporting Verizon’s digital ecosystem, creating a unified visual language built for scalability while allowing flexibility and creativity across experiences.
Role: Designer
Industry: Telecommunications
Duration: 2+ years
CHALLENGE
The Target
As Verizon’s digital ecosystem continues to grow, its design system needs to evolve alongside increasingly diverse product needs while maintaining consistency and scalability.
SOLUTION
How We Hit It
Our team expanded the system with flexible, reusable components and clear usage guidance, enabling Verizon’s many design teams to efficiently apply them across their work while maintaining consistency across the digital ecosystem.
NOTE: Due to a non-disclosure agreement between Verizon and my contracted company, Mean Guppy, specific details are not at my discretion to publish.
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Personal Contributions to Verizon’s Design System
My day-to-day role in evolving the design system to support a broad and continuously changing range of use cases spanned several areas, outlined below.
🧩 Component Design
Designed and evolved reusable components to support a diverse digital use cases, ensuring consistency, and scalability across Verizon’s digital ecosystem.
📣 Release Communications
Designed communications and supporting materials to introduce new components, updates, and system changes to the broader design community.
📐 Developer Specifications
Created detailed design specifications to translate component behaviors and visual details into development-ready guidance.
🔍 System Exploration
Explored emerging patterns, use cases, and design needs to identify opportunities for new components and system improvements.
📖 Usage Guidance
Developed and maintained guidance around component usage, design fundamentals, and best practices for designers across Verizon.
🔄 Feedback & Iteration
Gathered and incorporated feedback from designers and stakeholders to continuously evolve the system and better support its users.
By creating reusable components, design elements, and guidance, we provided Verizon’s diverse design teams a shared foundation to build from, enabling faster page creation while maintaining consistency across varied use cases.
Our work in action:
The Gridwall on Verizon’s main consumer platform serves a very different purpose than the Press Releases page on Verizon’s About Us domain, yet both maintain a cohesive brand and familiar visual language through shared design system elements.
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