We socialized the idea of a Polishathon at OneSignal — a set amount of days where we would pause from feature roadmap work in order to entirely focus on polish. The result was 5 days of executing on “polish” projects, where we shipped more than 20 UX improvements across our product.

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OneSignal has evolved over the years. We started out as a gaming company and learned about the importance of engaging and retaining customers. Then we pivoted to become the biggest push notification service for developers. Today we’re the market-leading customer engagement solution for marketers, product teams, and developers.

Our previous logo did a great job of representing our brand in our early startup days. Since then, we’ve grown to serve over a million businesses, and we felt it was time to give our logo a modern update.

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We’ve been rolling out a fresh wave of Lottie animations ???? to our website and product.

Here’s how we’re doing it ????✨…

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We have a design system, we call it “Beam” ☄️

Beam is our core product design system. We also have a web design system and email design system under the Beam umbrella ☂️

This is how we do design systems…

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Organizing Figma projects & files differs from team to team, depends on size of your team, the make up of your team & products. Consistency & teaching people how to quickly navigate these files so they aren’t relearning each time is important.

This is how we organize Figma…

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Not everyone on your team knows how to navigate Figma the way you do. Other designers have different methods. Engineers and PMs may not know where to start.

This is how we organize our project files and pages in Figma…

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When interviewing designers, PMs or engineers, I’ll usually get asked “how do you all work together?”. How does engineering work with PMs? PMs with design? Design with engineering?

My response goes something like this…

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As your design team grows, it’s important to establish a set of design principles. This keeps the team (+ org) aligned across all functions of design.

For us that includes product design, visual design & design engineering.

Here are our principles at OneSignal & how they came to be…

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I recently developed my first Figma plugin.

It wasn’t hard, and my whole team joined in, exposing us to what is possible with the Figma API.

Here’s a quick tutorial…

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