James Kurian

Orbital — building TSB’s design system

TSB had four squads, three component libraries and a Sketch file nobody quite trusted. Orbital is what replaced them: one system, adopted by every squad, documented well enough that people stopped asking me questions.

ClientTSB Bank
RoleDesign system manager
Team4 designers
Duration2021–2024
Read7 minutes

What Orbital moved

100%adoption across every squad shipping into the app
~95%component utilisation, so the system is the right size and not merely installed
350+designers, engineers and POs working from Orbital