Work completed while working at CDS.
Case study coming soon.
Life sciences company Lhasa harnesses the knowledge shared by its members — pharmaceutical companies across the globe. Lhasa uses this shared data to create expert systems and learning models which make it possible to predict the likely toxigenic and mutagenic properties of new chemical structures — speeding up drug development and reducing the need for in vitro or animal testing.
Each of Lhasa's suite of products target particular approaches to drug development, analysis and regulatory filing. Currently these exist as monolithic, standalone desktop applications. We were briefed to helping them redesign their products as cloud-based or network applications, to be accessed via a web browser.
In the design work for Lhasa, we sought to find common functionality between their products, in order to create a coherent and unified set of design principles, patterns and components.
Developing this design language into a design system, this could then be applied to the design of new products and services as well as the redesign of existing products.
`The design system as applied to the design of a product — an essential step to test the strength and flexibility of the design system.
Elements such as navigation, cards and tables are unified across all products
The design system followed an atomic design approach, starting with foundational 'atoms' such as typography
Complex components or 'organisms' combine multiple simpler 'molecules'. As well as defining layout of components, usage guidance helps ensure consistency and best practice.