I make and teach
Design Systems

Hey, I'm Ness

I have 17 years of design experience, 8 of those in Design Systems. My mission is to empower and educate others to level up their system thinking.

I’ve built many different types of design systems — including branded systems and even a white label system, oof.

More recently I wrote the handbook for creating Design System components!

brain

System thinking

layer group

Systemisation

vector

Product design

pen tool

Visual design

Figma

Adobe suite

code

Front-end

Let’s work together!

Need help levelling up your design system?
I can help you with consulting and tailored training.

Tailored training

All about design

Tips, tricks and advice.

Where to Start with Design System Tactics

8 Apr 2025

Where to Start with Design System Tactics

And Why You’ll Use Them Again and Again

What designing systems taught me about myself

29 Mar 2025

What designing systems taught me about myself

On balance, burnout, and building with care

Level up your design system with an improvements and usage audit

29 Jan 2024

Level up your design system with an improvements and usage audit

With a free template to get you started

Design System documentation sucks, improving your system from the inside out

17 Oct 2023

Your Design System documentation sucks

Improve the UX of your system from the inside out

Design System contribution is f*king difficult — let’s change it

3 Nov 2023

Why Design System contribution processes don't work

How to create tailored processeses to build stronger engagement

Get it shipped — building better relationships with Devs

14 Sep 2023

Building bridges between designers and developers

Get projects shipped on time, every time

Why your Design System needs a component process

9 Sep 2023

Why your Design System needs a component process

and where to find one

Creating a Wise typographic set

29 Aug 2023

Creating a Wise typographic set

How we created an international type library for everyone, everywhere

10 Aug 2023

The making of an icon(s)

How we made a globally recognisable and scalable icon library

Portfolio don'ts for product designers — what to do instead

2 Aug 2023

Portfolio do's and don'ts for product designers

Stand out and land that job

Seven lessons from 7 years designing systems

25 May 2023

Seven lessons from 7 years designing systems

You won't believe #3

Learn with me

Redesigning Design Systems

A space that makes learning about and evolving Design Systems fun, easy and most importantly, accessible to everyone.