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Orbital Design System

Crafting a token-driven Design System to elevate UI, centralise control, and drive product expansion.

Orbital Design System overview
Orbital Design System overview

The Orbital Design System is a token-driven design and UI foundation built to support a complex, multi-product platform, developed in close collaboration with frontend engineers to ensure consistent patterns, predictable theming, and a direct, low-friction translation from design decisions into production code.

Client

Armstrong Operations

My role

Design System Lead

Skills

Design system architecture
Design tokens (semantic, primitive, mode-based)
Token pipelines (JSON, Git, versioned)
Component APIs and variants
System taxonomy and hierarchy
Theming and modes
Accessibility foundations
Governance and change control
Design–engineering alignment
Figma libraries and variables

Timeline

Q4 2023 - Q3 2025

Team

Vio Cojocaru, Jonas Erickson, Haris Veveris, Alex Collins,

Orbital Design System by Nick Collins
Orbital by Nick Collins
Orbital Design System documentation
Orbital Design System variables
Orbital Design System JSON

Orbital Design System Linear documentation
Orbital Design System colour primitives
© 2026 NICK COLLINS

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© 2026 NICK COLLINS

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© 2026 NICK COLLINS

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