Design system as a service

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Build faster, reduce costs, and ensure consistent UI across all products & teams. We produce a centralized library of reusable user interface elements, along with code snippets and usage instructions. This expedites time-to-market and ensures brand consistency.

Trust our design system portfolio to ship faster and avoid mistakes

Stop reinventing the wheel. With our design system architecture, you will design smarter with pre-approved patterns and fewer revisions, develop faster with drag-and-drop solutions, and deploy easily with dev-ready libraries. No more fractured branding, no more wasted cycles on rebuilds. Just one unified foundation that lets you scale without friction.

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What are the benefits of creating a design system?

  • Consistency

    Among the greatest benefits of design system development is the codified visual language, ensuring every interface element adheres to the same precise specifications across all platforms. It automates brand consistency, keeping your UI unified across one product or twenty.

  • Scalability

    A design system future-proofs your interface architecture, allowing new features and products to plug into existing patterns easily. It multiplies your design velocity, as teams spend less time rebuilding basics, while the system handles the heavy lifting of UI foundations.

  • Faster development

    Pre-built, proven components eliminate guesswork and snap together effortlessly. By integrating design system principles directly into code, it creates a shared language where mockups and production environments stay perfectly in sync, lowering iteration time.

  • Maintainability

    A well-crafted design system is a self-documenting architecture, where component versioning and deprecation pathways are built in, making updates easy to support. Your UI gets resilient — colors, spacing, and components self-maintain through system rules.

  • Quick onboarding

    A design system brings in structured discovery, where new hires navigate design system documentation with ease. It compresses the learning curve into days, with style guides, component playgrounds, and decision records that explain the "why" behind every UI pattern.

  • Effective communication

    Having an efficient design system allows you to convert visual language into development-ready components with baked-in behavior rules and accessibility requirements. It encodes design rules directly into components, guaranteeing pixel-perfect implementation.

Design system best practices: COAX solutions

Design system tools we use

Our design system roadmap

This stage focuses purely on understanding your unique challenges through file reviews, team interviews, and usage analytics. Our design system consultant performs an in-depth audit of your visual assets and development pipelines.

We create a visual inventory of all your existing UI patterns, documenting how components are currently used across different products and platforms. We track design debt and spot reuse opportunities, with clear priorities for fixing them.

During this stage of the design system process, we create low-fidelity component blueprints that define structure, behavior, and responsive rules without visual styling. Grayscale wireframes let us stress-test layouts and interactions before final design.

Here's where your brand comes to life — we define color palettes, typography scales, and spacing systems that work across all components. Every style undergoes rigorous testing with contrast checks, responsive simulations, and cross-platform validation.

Approved designs become clean, modular code, built to your stack’s specs and optimized for performance. We validate each module against the design system template to ensure seamless implementation, proper state management, and theming capability out of the box.

At the final stage, our design system manager leads staged rollouts with automated dependency checks. We deploy updates through your preferred distribution channels (like npm, private repos, etc.) while maintaining clear rollback options.

Why choose COAX as your design system agency?

Customized system design

We build design systems tailored to your release cadence, with docs in your team’s language. Our approach adapts to your stack, whether you need design tokens that play nicely with legacy CSS or React components built for your unique state management patterns.

Structured deployment

COAX’s design system team establishes clear release protocols, from beta testing with select squads to full deployment with rollback contingencies, tailored to your risk tolerance. Versioned documentation and smooth migration let teams adopt updates without breaking legacy systems.

Agile and user-centric approach

We validate all design system decisions through real team workflows, testing components in actual product contexts rather than theoretical scenarios. Our sprints prioritize your biggest friction points, measuring how each update improves workflow and user outcomes.

Technical expertise and implementation support

The design system as a service model we provide means we troubleshoot real implementation hurdles. We ensure flawless production-ready components: optimized for performance, clean APIs, and built-in observability to monitor system health.

Accessibility standards

Your design system gets built with accessibility linting rules, automated contrast checks, and component-level screen reader tests. We weave WCAG compliance into every component, ensuring color contrast, keyboard navigation, and ARIA attributes work out of the box.

Future-proof scalability

We architect your design system with extensibility in mind, anticipating emerging tech, team growth, and product evolution. Our solutions include versioning strategies and deprecation policies so your system scales seamlessly, avoiding costly rebuilds when new needs arise.

What our clients say about COAX


I was most impressed by the quality of the end product.

While my ideas formed the basis for the work, they delivered a far more superior product than I imagined with greater flexibility and viability of features. They exceeded expectations so many times it got to the point I couldn't wait to see what they came up with next.

Dan Brooks

President, Krytter

COAX have delivered immense value to our business as our valued strategic development partner.

I implicitly trust the whole COAX team to do the right thing by location:live, and to have blunt and honest conversations with me when we are in the thick of delivery. COAX are the engine room and compass behind our market-leading tech.

Neil Winkworth

CTPO, Location Live

The solution created by COAX is better than I could have anticipated.

The app is simple to use, effective, well designed and never fails. Highlights of the COAX service are a clear, transparent specification with realistic cost estimate, project managers that are responsive, always helpful and communicate clearly, a strong technical team and a company that I can trust.

Phil Cushion

Founder, SiteSurvey Plus

I heavily relied on COAX for not only the development of my core product, but also assistance in all the other support infrastructure in hosting my product.

The team also went above and beyond their existing web development skillset by making effort to understand the domain specific (financial modelling) math and technicalities of my product.

Tim

Founder, Peercents

COAX’s team is second to none designing, developing, and deploying websites.

I was delighted by COAX attention to detail and ability to deliver such a complex project. I highly recommend COAX to anyone looking for a reliable and talented web development team.

Mason Blake

Co-founder and CTO, Ratio

In working with COAX, we found them to be highly professional.

We have continued our ongoing relationship and cooperation with COAX on this project thanks to the ongoing support they continue to offer us.

Ashley Greenfelder

Director, Re:Plan

Their highly responsive team had the technical know-how to seamlessly incorporate non-standard features.

Despite facing tight crucial deadlines, they worked tirelessly around the clock to deliver the project on time, even accommodating additional feature requests. We are immensely thankful for their hard work, which resulted in exceptional outcomes.

Ali Ghafour

CEO, 2020 Armor

Throughout the years, we have maintained a strong relationship based on mutual trust and respect.

From the start, we prioritized flexibility, particularly in terms of working within our monthly budget and delivering new features and functionalities every two weeks. Our communication with both the project manager and team members has been exceptional, and we have consistently received high-quality product delivery and support.

Andrew Macfarlane

Founder & CEO, Carezapp

You will not often find such an approach in the outsourcing development market.

From the first day, the COAX team established themselves as optimistic. After the guys spent a dozen hours sorting out our problems and never once talked about money, we realized that this team was ready to go the extra mile. We were finally convinced of the prospects for cooperation when the COAX CTO came to our British office in person with a detailed presentation of the renovation.

Richard Murray

CEO, Antique Ecommerce Marketplace

We liked the COAX team’s deep-diving approach and attention to detail.

Their incremental approach with feedback loops allowed us to see results from the early stages and ensured we stayed on the right track. But most importantly, we felt that they genuinely cared about our project. Doing their best to make it as perfect as possible, they were always there for us, on-site rather than online.

Mykola Bronitskyy

Co-founder, GrandBus

They always respond right away to any questions or requests that we have and contribute really good ideas.

The development work delivered by COAX has satisfied all project stakeholder requirements for the project and helped to streamline internal company processes for the client. Their team is communicative and helpful throughout the work, contributing ideas to make the product even better.

Peter Goian

General Manger, TRI

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Frequently asked questions and answers

A design system is a collection of reusable components, guidelines, and standards that help teams build digital products faster and more consistently. It combines design elements (like buttons and typography) with coded components and clear rules for how to use them, ensuring everything looks and works the same way across different projects.

To use a design system, start by learning its guidelines and components so you can apply them correctly. When designing or building features, pull ready-made elements from the system to save time and keep things consistent. Always check the documentation for updates or rules if you’re unsure, and contribute back to the system if you improve or add something new.

The main difference is that a style guide focuses mainly on visual rules like colors, fonts, and branding, while creating a design system goes further by including reusable components, code snippets, and guidelines for how everything works together.

Design systems help entire product teams the most. Designers work faster with ready-made components, developers get clean code they can reuse, and product managers see consistent results. Even new employees benefit, as instead of guessing how things should look or work, they follow the system's clear rules.

Yes, our services are fully customizable. We analyze your workflows, tech stack, and branding to build a system that aligns with your goals. Whether you need lightweight components for a startup or enterprise-grade scalability, our design system consulting and development tailors every piece, from governance to implementation, to your team’s way of working.

We specialize in seamlessly integrating design systems into existing workflows without disrupting your current processes. Whether you use Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or other tools, we adapt the system to match how your team already works.

We provide end-to-end support tailored to your design system strategy, from initial planning through long-term maintenance. Our team offers hands-on guidance for implementation, including component development, documentation, and team training to ensure successful adoption.

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