Bringing Iteration Time Down to 67.9%, by Closing the Gap Between Design and Dev
Area : B2B SaaS, Incident Management, BLR IND
When : 2022 — 2025
Role : Product Designer
TL DR
Zenduty ran on a borrowed design language, not its own. I built the system that made design and code finally speak the same way. I built Enso, Zenduty's design system, from scratch with a team of four. We replaced Ant Design with our own colour, type, icons, and accessible primitives that matched how the team actually worked, so design and development stopped drifting apart. The goal was simple: a shared language that let a tiny team ship like a much larger one.
Problem
It started with my graduation project in 2022. Zenduty was a big product relying entirely on Ant Design, and it hit me that a borrowed system was not the future. We needed a design library that talked our language and shared our vision. The catch: Ant Design would not let us shape its components, and design kept drifting from what the engineers could actually build.
Colour
Icons
Typography
Primitives
Components
Colour
Icons
Typography
Primitives
Components
How can we build a design library that talks our language and shares our vision, instead of bending a borrowed one to fit?
This became the brief
4
The entire team: one product designer and three frontend engineers
4,950
Tabler icons assessed to replace the old set
336
Radix colours adopted as the foundation of the system
So I dug into where Zenduty and Ant Design were pulling apart, and found out
Zenduty relied entirely on Ant Design, a system that did not match how the team thought or spoke.
Ant Design components only exposed a few props, so we could not shape them the way the product needed.
The old icon set carried another brand's voice and felt dated against where we were heading.
Colour, type, and components were each solved in isolation, with no shared logic across design and dev.
Adopted Radix Colors as the foundation: 336 colours and 22 scales, built to stay calm and accessible on incident screens.
Switched to Tabler icons, an MIT licensed set of 4,950 pixel-perfect icons, for a cleaner and more modern look.
Standardised on Inter for clean strokes and a type scale with built-in logic and scalable System of Fonts
Wrote shared usage values into each icon's description, so design and dev referenced the same source.
Rebuilt components on Radix primitives: unstyled, accessible, and fully shapeable, unlike Ant Design.
Baked automatic dark mode into the colour system, working across the whole library.
Impact from the Design
104%
Higher incident title visibility on the first screen shipped with Enso
67.9%
Reduction in design and iteration timeframes
23.4%
Increase in go-to-market speed
2 Quarters
For all of Zenduty to transition onto Enso
Why this mattered