Case Study

Case Study 1 - Foundation and Inventory

Mapping fragmented UI patterns into a shared inventory and decision framework.

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The first chapter started as an alignment exercise: understand where duplication hurts delivery speed, and where teams still need controlled flexibility.

Problem framing

We audited product surfaces and found repeated interaction patterns that looked similar but behaved differently under edge cases. This created implementation drift, support overhead, and inconsistent accessibility quality.

Adoption confidence

46

current state: organized

Tactical move

Instead of jumping to components first, we built a decision framework around:

Progression

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Inventory all production patterns by behavior and variant.

Outcome

The first milestone was not visual consistency.
The milestone was decision consistency, which then enabled component consistency.