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Assessment of the Life Design System
The Life Design System should be considered State of the Art, and is one of the primary efforts we see as working towards Coherence. The Life Design System is managed from the Copenhagen Office, overseen by Hector Mejia. Troels Villumsen is our SPOC.
We believe the new dominant and scaling "species" of companies align around:
a Unified Design System and
a Unified API, These two workflows could be thought of as the most vital organs of State of the Art company health.
We are also observing that software development is becoming more Visual. This is, in part, due to the rise of Low-Code tools, and Agentic AI, particularly in setting up Sequential Agents. Therefore, our primary perspective is that the Life Design System can contribute more to the organization by expanding its mandate and scope of concern, and the audience that utilizes it.
Our Angle on our Work
The Life Design System is State of the Art and is being utilized across teams and geographies for UI design and implementation. Therefore, our hope was to be thought-provoking on what might be included in a Design System, and how the Life Design System might impact workflows in the larger organization.
Right now, better visual communication can dramatically impact Product Development Workflow; even more specific -- the handoffs.
We foresee an accelerating force on software development as two trends collide: the need to refactor and rewrite code at accelerating paces, and the possibility of using AI Code Generators, and AI Powered Text Editors or IDEs and Terminal Emulators to let Large Language Models do much of the heavy lifting for mind-numbing boiler-plate parts of writing code. This creates a phenomenon we call Lego-Kit Engineering
By empowering Visual Leadership, visual communication and collaboration, a large swath of hangups, misunderstandings, meetings to get more clarity, etc, and other forms of Drag (on Productivity) can be reduced or even eliminated.
Broadening the Impact of the Life Design System
We, the The Lossless Group believes the the Life Design System should become more of a centerpiece to the Laerdal organization. Including, but not limited to:
Visual Leadership and internal communication.
Laerdal Product Management (the process and artifacts of, rather than the UI designs from)
Therefore, we hope that the Life Design System can expand its mandate and have starter kits and component libraries that can streamline the development of:
Diagrams and Blueprints
Project Planning and Product Roadmaps
Documents
Presentations
Posters
Screens (like displays around the office)
Reports
Data Stories
Data Visualizations
Meta Design System
What is a Meta Design System? Well, we think it should open the mandate and influence of the Life Design System. Hopefully, the team finds some of it useful enough to incorporate.
This is part of our CARBS framework, which stands for Charms, Anchors, Recipes, Blueprints, Starters.
For easy access, please assure you've watched the vide: !The Lossless Group
Design, for those indoctrinated and who have sworn the oath, is assuredly part art and part science. Yet in both the art and science, there are always a set of beliefs and patterns that guide a somewhat repeatable, disciplined, creative process.
Part of that process is to communicate and align on designs that may otherwise not fully align, not fully resonate, and not provide the lasting guidance to the many-act-as-one necessity of teamwork and organizational momentum. This is particularly true in the Research to UX to UI to Development handoffs, not to mention "managing up" to anyone who might be checking in on strategy, productivity, and results.
And so, The Lossless Group believes in the Meta Design System and Visual Leadership.
Design File Navigation & Labels
[[#Area Labels]]
Visual Logic Kit, Flow Chart / Diagram Kit
[[#Visual Logic and Flow Diagram Kit]]
Layout Icons
Data Type Icons
Tech Stack Stack Maps
[[#Information Flow Map]]
[[#Data Production Line]]
Solution Page
Solution Card
Vendor Assets
[[#Data Modeling Kit]]
User Journey Template
Persona Cards
Mindset Validation Carousel
Tokens
Color Cards
Gradient Cards
Connecting Lines
Area Labels
An Example of how Area Labels helps designers navigate through large files.
!Screenshot 2025 01 24 at 3.15.49 PM_Lossless_Designs User Flows.png
Visual Logic and Flow Chart / Diagram Kit
!Screenshot 2025 01 30 at 10.49.35 AM_CARBS_Flow Chart Draft.png
Information Flow Map
in Figma
Orientation to the Information Flow Map
A Dive into the Information Flow Map
A Screenshot of the Information Flow Map
This is a screenshot as of 2025, Jan 30.
!20250130_Lossless_Designs v08_Information Map__For Comment.png This is an export of a variant with Sales Marketing and Services included. !v09_Information Map__For Comment.png
Data Modeling Kit
in Figma
Here's a link to our files in Figma
A video explainer of the Data Modeling Kit
A screenshot of the state of work
!Screenshot 2025 01 30 at 2.08.16 PM_Lossless_Designs Data Modeling Kit.png
!v2__Data Model Database In Action.png
Data Production Line
in Figma
Here's a link to the source Figma document.
Screenshots
Draft Screenshot as of January 30, 2025: !v05_Data Production Line For Comment.png