Building design systems that scale product teams, not just toolkits.
I am a UI designer who specializes in design systems production, documentation, and component library management. 15+ years building and scaling design systems across Intuitive Surgical, Microsoft, REI, Lululemon, and Kaiser Permanente.
Selected work
A closer look at design system work built and scaled inside enterprise teams, each project shaped by its own production, adoption, or governance challenge.
About me
Good systems make the next decision easier—and help teams keep making it at scale.
I’m a UI designer with 15+ years across enterprise and consumer products, with the last six focused on design systems. I connect product design, libraries, tokens, documentation, and code so teams can adopt, maintain, and evolve a shared foundation.
Parity is a production practice. Design libraries and code must stay synchronized at every release. I've ensured Figma libraries remained in parity with React components across 25+ teams, so what designers see always matches what ships. Consistency isn't aspirational; it's operational rigor.
Documentation is a design surface. Documentation and design files must stay in sync at every release. Clear docs reveal whether your system is coherent. Documentation is where you discover if your API makes sense before teams adopt it at scale.
Adoption is a design problem. Adoption deserves the same attention as component quality. Working directly with unfamiliar teams, evolving what ships based on real usage, and building trust. Systems scale through enablement, not mandate.
Let's work together
Open for full time and contract roles in both product design and UI design. Building from scratch, working on tooling, scaling what exists, or something else design systems related — feel free to reach out directly using the contact info below. The fastest way to reach me is email.
- Hello@IamFes.com
- linkedin.com/in/fesnaqvi
- Based in Seattle, WA