What is this guide?

There’s a lot that goes into building and maintaining products and curating a customer experience - from the inception of an idea to design to the deployment of code. As organizations grow, their products and teams often do too—and so must their design systems.

Managing multiple brands, products, or platforms under one ecosystem introduces new layers of complexity: more contributors, diverse design languages, separate developer workflows, and unique documentation needs. Without a clear structure in place, things can quickly get messy.

This guide is here to help you scale with confidence.

Whether you’re starting with a core design system and expanding, or already managing multiple brands and looking for a better way to structure your work, this guide walks you through how to set up Supernova to support a scalable, multi-brand design system architecture.

You’ll learn:

• The two main setup types in Supernova for multi-brand / product / team / platform ecosystems
• How to choose the right structure based on your org, teams, and goals
• How to configure your Supernova instance to support each setup
• How to manage collaboration, permissions, and code automation at scale

This guide is for design system managers, designers, developers, and product teams looking to build a flexible foundation for cross-brand design operations—and grow it over time.

Let’s begin by exploring your setup options and how Supernova supports them.

Let’s get started! 🚀