Mangahigh is a UK based Maths Games Edtech company with products used by more than 5.000 schools and education departments all around the world.
This project documents the evolution of the Mangahigh Design System – A comprehensive system of interface components, behaviour, uses and processes, utilised in Mangahigh’s core products: Teacher Experience and Student Experience platforms.
I also showcase my work leading the Design Team at Mangahigh, introducing a DesignOps approach, what that means, and what we achieved with a team comprised of Junior Designers, Games Designers, UX designers and freelancers.
This involved me designing holisitic work strategies, reviewing processes, creating styleguides and documentation and mentoring through workshops and activities.
The Mangahigh Design Team
Celebrating a succesful brainstorming session.
Mangahigh DS, used in Mangahigh’s Teacher Experience and Student Experience products – branching into other subproducts such as the Prodigi maths games enging, evolved throughout the years.
I reworked, simplified and guided the evolution of the system.
Objective
Sustainable growth of the system
Reduced production times
Improved design-dev handover processes
Mangahigh DS v1
Design in 2015 by a team of freelancers, the original Mangahigh DS was based on Google Material I.
Due to the development of new features and decentralised management of the system, the original Mangahigh DS suffered of high entropy – the complexity of the system made it increasingly unsustainable and hard to update and document.
Mangahigh DS v2
Rework started in-house during 2020.
Documentation of tokens and components
Revision and reduction of tokens: spacing, size, colour, typography and responsive grids.
The Mangahigh Design Team worked as a centralised collaborative team.
Designers would report to me for task assigning, direction, feedback and mentoring.
Benefits:
Collaboration
Humanize
Standardise
Harmonise
Prioritise
Measure
Socialise
Enable
