50% Efficiency Gains with Silk Design System
50%
Faster prototyping
Rapid prototyping completed in half the time on projects using Silk.
80%
Adapted it to their brand
Share of users who matched Silk’s components to their own branding without losing design integrity.
3
Months for an MVP
Design timeline on a 2024 native app, against six months for a comparable 2021 project run without Silk.
The client
Silk is Netguru’s own design system, built to make UI design for mobile faster and more consistent. It behaves as a nearly headless UI kit — useful for rapid prototyping, wireframing and style guides, and ready to serve as the design system on a commercial project.
It is now publicly available, so teams outside Netguru can reuse its components in their own commercial work.
The challengeWhat the teams actually needed
Design work kept hitting the same drag: inconsistent visuals, nothing written down and no shared language between designers and developers.
Challenge 01Design legacy pulling every direction
Visuals and interactions were inconsistent, and the existing design solutions were hard to scale.
Challenge 02Nothing documented
Missing documentation made the route from design to development inefficient.
Challenge 03No common language
Uneven design literacy slowed collaboration, and design and development ended up with misaligned priorities.
What we did
Components, tokens, and the rules for using both
Silk ships as a library plus the documentation that makes it usable by someone who did not build it.
Pre-built and fully customisable
A component library supporting rapid prototyping and scalable design systems, with design tokens covering colour, typography, spacing and shapes.
Out of the box, or tailored
Usable immediately for rapid prototyping, or adapted to specific branding for commercial and long-term projects.
Naming, maintenance and UX writing
Naming standards for files and components, guidelines for expanding the library over time, and practical advice on writing user-friendly copy.
Step-by-step deployment
Guides for putting Silk to work in different environments, whether an internal team or an external client.
Netguru quote
Silk bridges the gap between complex design systems and unstructured UI kits, empowering designers to enhance their skills, adopt best practices, and streamline their workflows.
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