Design System Portal - Fabric

Case Study: Designing Fabric — The Fraedom Design System Portal

Brief

Fraedom’s growing suite of digital products required a unified design language that could support scale, consistency, and collaboration across teams. The goal was to create a central portal for the Fraedom Design System, named Fabric — a reference to the system's purpose of weaving all design elements and resources into one accessible location.

Fabric was envisioned as a single source of truth for all UI components, design patterns, and brand guidelines. It would serve designers and developers alike, providing both visual assets and functional code in a shared, collaborative environment.

Approach

The design and development of Fabric were deeply collaborative. Every component in the system was created as part of a team effort, bringing together product designers, front-end engineers, and brand stakeholders.

We focused on:

• Aligning visual design and engineering from the outset

• Ensuring cross-platform consistency

• Building components that were both reusable and scalable

• Supporting both current and legacy frameworks, including React and Angular 1.5

Tools and Technologies

To support design and handoff workflows, we used a suite of tools including:

• Sketch for component and page design

• Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Creative Cloud for brand and visual assets

• Adobe XD (early versions) for prototyping and layout exploration

• Zeplin.io for developer handoff and design specs

• ReactJS and Angular 1.5 for implementation of reusable front-end components

Outcome

Fabric is currently in the design and build phase, with a planned external release scheduled for mid next year. Components created to date exist as both:

• Sketch-based design components for rapid prototyping and reuse

• Functional React and Angular components, ready for development use

Fabric is already streamlining the design-to-development workflow, improving consistency across teams, and reinforcing Fraedom’s design standards across all product touchpoints. Once launched, it will serve as a scalable foundation for future product growth and cross-functional collaboration.