Built Design System → 87% Component Coverage: Design Sys Bullets

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Replaced three soft nouns ('consistency', 'velocity', 'product teams') with the three defensible facts: component count, surface-coverage %, and the build-time delta — the only outcome a design-system VP signs off on.

Shipped 84 production components across 6 product teams, hitting 87% surface coverage and cutting average new-page build time from 9 days to 3.5.

What changed and why

  • Component count, surface coverage %, adoption rate, build-time delta — these are the four design-system metrics that prove platform value.
  • Coverage % is the hardest single number to fake — quote it.
  • Build-time delta (9 days → 3.5) is the metric that proves the system reached engineers, not just sat in Figma.
  • Team count adopting (6) > 'multiple teams' — the AI shortcut never picks an exact number.

Recruiter perspective

“84 components shipped, 87% coverage, build-time halved. That's a platform-designer profile.”

— Head of Design Platform · Enterprise SaaS

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