Design System Hardening

I help design system owners shift accessibility from a review-stage activity to a built-in engineering constraint. The focus is repeatability: design tokens, component patterns, and usage guidance that scale across squads.

Target

Component-level consistency

Artifacts

Patterns + acceptance criteria

Scale

Multi-team adoption

What You Get

Accessibility acceptance criteria templates per component type
Interaction and state behavior standards
Review checklist for design, development, and QA
Annotated guidance for edge cases and anti-patterns

Delivery Process

Step 01

System Assessment

Review current component inventory and identify recurring accessibility failure points.

Step 02

Pattern Definition

Codify accessible interaction states, semantic rules, and acceptance criteria.

Step 03

Library Alignment

Map standards to design and engineering handoff workflows.

Step 04

Governance

Establish review guardrails to keep future components compliant by default.

FAQs

Do you work with existing design systems or only new ones?

Both. I can harden an existing system incrementally or help define accessibility standards for a new system from the start.

Can this include documentation templates?

Yes. Teams usually receive reusable acceptance-criteria templates and review checklists.

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