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A systems practice · Bath, UK
For teams shipping product without a full design department. Orin builds the design system your developers ship from.
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The problem
Developers are carrying the design load.
Most product teams are shipping without a full design department. Either they never had one, or they're leaner than they used to be. So the developers carry the design load — and every sprint they're reinventing components, making design calls in silos, and building up debt that slows the whole team down. Multiple versions of the same component. Fourteen shades of grey. Nobody's fault. No source of truth.
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What Orin does
Orin builds the substrate.
The design system, the tokens, the component library, the pipeline that connects Figma to the codebase. One source of truth your team ships from — built in your workflow, not delivered over a wall. This site runs on the same pipeline it sells. View the tokens →
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How I work
How it works
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The Diagnostic · £4,500 · 1 week
I find where your design system is broken and what it's costing you. You keep the diagnosis and the checks that found it.
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The Foundation · £6,500 · 2 weeks
The other way in, for a product that doesn't exist yet. The token layer authored and wired in, ending with one real screen.
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The Build · from £12,000 · 4–6 weeks
The system, built and connected. Scoped from the Diagnostic — I don't price unscoped work.
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The Retainer · £2,000/month
I stay close and the system stays alive. Cancel with 30 days' notice.
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Proof
This works. I've measured it.
At Vivo Energy (contracted via Rethink), the development team had no design system — every developer making design calls alone. A simple component library, page patterns, and token setup aligned the team: fewer defects, less rework, and a 60 per cent saving in development time. The Technical Officer had something to point at when the business asked what changed. Read the case studies →
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Let's build
That's the kind of problem I like to solve.
If your team is shipping without a source of truth, the Diagnostic is where we start.