Speeding Up Development Process Throughput with Design System and UI Toolkit
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) develops and maintains an extensive website that hosts relevant publicly available statistics, interactive data illustrations, insightful releases, and a vast data archive. For a historically old institute such as Statistics Finland, maintaining, migrating, and updating technologically outdated dependencies and portions of the website creates operational overhead and nuisance, especially when there are numerous ambitions for new features.
Key challenges
Major pull for new features and visual face-lift
Continuously expanding websites and, thereby, the need for new UI elements
Maintaining and migrating technologically outdated parts of the websites
No shared “single source of truth” for designers and developers – e.g. understanding of the current state of the “design system”: the official, refined set of UI elements, their appearance and functionalities
We helped by
Establishing design system thinking, refining the current state, contents and limits of the design system and articulating best practices for developing and maintaining a coherent design system
Implementing an internal UI library for frontend development, containing all the components and elements of the design system
Bridge design and development processes with an internal site for representing and developing the design system
Refining web accessibility implementation and adding support for more complex UI components – such as more functional inputs and overlay components
Benefits of the all-inclusive UI toolkit
Increasing the development process clock speed significantly with plug-and-play, pre-implemented components
Improved maintainability increases efficiency by minimising redundant UI implementations and centralising functional logic
Consistent, intuitive and well-documented component interfaces
Enforcing web accessibility with component type definitions and documentation
“Implementing the design system and UI toolkit has accelerated our web development. Vuono Group helped us streamline our processes, allowing us to quickly build new features with pre-implemented, accessible components. This has significantly improved our efficiency, maintainability, and the overall consistency of our website.”
About Statistics Finland
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) is Finland's national statistical institute that produces impartial statistics on Finnish society. Their task is to process data accumulated from various data sources into statistics to support decision-making and for the use of citizens, researchers and others who need data.