
Design systems are the driving force behind some of the world’s most complex digital products and services. They offer designers and developers a set of repeatable components and standards used to unify designs and drive development efficiencies.
Icon was tasked with delivering a new design system for the Australian Department of Defence web estate – a collection of over 100 disparate websites built over many years and on numerous platforms.
With Defence migrating their web estate to the GovCMS SaaS platform this was a perfect time to deploy a design system, simplify the information architecture, improve the user experience, and build a centrally-managed component library for use across their vast web estate.