In Italy, Subito is kind of a big deal. With more than 11m active monthly users, it’s the country’s biggest classifieds service as well as one of the most popular online destinations.
When Covid hit, Subito’s designers were on a deadline to release a brand new product. As they scrambled to adapt to working from home, they realized they needed to make some big changes.
Belka’s brief: Migrate and rebuild Subito’s entire design system in Figma, and help the team transition without losing days of work.
In March 2020, Subito’s design team was facing a serious problem. For years, they had been using Sketch as a design environment and repository for their design system, mostly without problems.
But then disaster hit. Literally.
Forced by the global pandemic to work from home, the team found that Sketch, a non-cloud platform, was creating serious bottlenecks, just as when they were about to launch an important new product.
They had to figure out a solution, and they had to do it quickly.
Belka’s crack team of experts came up with a workshop to introduce Subito’s team to both Figma as a tool, and to use it to work with their shiny new design system.
Having a single source of truth for all our products has been game changing.
The design system Belka created for us helped us be better at our jobs. We were incredibly impressed.