Get Executive Buy-infor Your Design System
Craft a business case to secure buy-in from key stakeholders and quantify the ROI of your design system initiative.
How Supernova saves you time and money
Get an idea of how Supernova accelerates your product workflow, enabling you to scale your design system sustainably and cut down costs.
Saved in setup and maintenance costs, in the first year
Tailor your design system without the overhead
Boost in design system team efficiency
Connect your design system information
Saved per week/team
Faster onboarding
Save product teams time and reduce workloads
Crafting the case for design systems
Getting buy-in and funding for your design system from key stakeholders requires building a compelling business case. Executives need to understand why they should resource a design system initiative over something else and how it'll help the organization achieve company goals.
Follow our 4-step process and download our presentation deck template to craft the business case for design systems.
1. Articulate the problem
- Highlight current workflow inefficiencies.
- Identify areas of improvement in collaboration.
- Communicate inconsistencies in design and their impact.
2. Understand stakeholder needs
- Identify executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
- Conduct interviews to better understand their priorities.
- Cater business case to stakeholder needs.
3. Budget your design system
- Research benchmarks and implementation methods.
- Calculate the cost of building and maintaining the design system.
- Forecast impact and cost savings.
4. Create an action plan
- Identify the scope and scale of the initial design system.
- Develop a project plan with deadlines and owners.
- Get buy-in from cross-functional stakeholders.
“It’s easy to use, intuitive, and offers many opportunities to scale in the future.”
Supernova is a tool that really understands the needs of design systems creators. We’ve had no fun in the past working with other tools’ documentation, but that’s all changed now. It’s easy to use, intuitive, and offers many opportunities to scale in the future. As a single source of truth, it is mind-blowing, efficient, fast, and highly customizable. They also listen to their customers and prioritize their roadmaps to fit their needs which is a great bonus.
Quantify the ROI and savings
We calculate how much money a design system saves your team, by looking at the cost of product development without a design system, as well as the savings from building using Supernova instead of a custom solution.
Designers
Developers
Code automation
Savings
$300,000
$360,000
$208,833
$2,756,500
736%
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