Morgan Stanley, Campfire System,

 
 

Campfire Enterprise Design System, Morgan Stanley

Problem

Morgan Stanley had 16+ style guides, sticker sheets and systems being used to serve 300+ internal products and tools. This caused major inconsistencies in UX, lack of actively maintained systems for product designers, and accessibility standard not being met.

Solution

Campfire Enterprise is a sub-system of the broader Campfire system, it is designed to serve all internal products.

Timeframe

2022–2023 (MVP phase), 2023–Present (Continued building, enhancing, and maintaining)

Role

Designer Lead

Stakeholders

Design and technology leadership, 11+ UX vertical leads, 40+ Product designers, product owners, and consuming developers.

Users

Consumers of the system are product designers and developers using the system to build products. End users of the components are financial advisors, service professionals, traders, and other employees.

 
 
 

Components and Patterns

I designed components build to on atomic design principles while prioritizing accessibility standards, usability, and visual design.

For all components and patterns I’ve designed comprehensive documentation of usage guidance.

Due to the sensitive nature of internal products, I do not have any images here. I’d be happy to share more specific information upon direct request (mackenzie.j.bennett@gmail.com).

 
 
 

Process

Audit, exploration, proposal, document, dev hand off, QA, and publish.

Designed and implemented team-wide processes to support growth, streamline workflows, and ensure design quality at scale with the goal of reducing dev time for product developers.

Creating consistency between products by maintaining a single source of truth, built to always meet accessibility standards.

 

 

 

Education, building trust, and socialization

Educating designers on the system, and the benefits of using it was huge to obtaining buy in. I created a presence for the system and our team by…

  • hosting weekly sessions to bring designers into the process, and to share out our new features.

  • hosting multiple open hours throughout the week to allow designers to drop in with questions.

  • being integrated into UX design reviews to educate and review work throughout the UX design process.

  • monitoring help channels on teams.

 
 
 

Stakeholder input + backlog ownership

To decide the priority of components to build, I created voting sessions with UX leads to understand the demand for the items in our backlog and sorted them on an impact/effort matrix to evaluate quick wins.

 
 

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