Ulta Beauty was moving off Sketch and onto Figma, and I joined the newly formed Palette team to rebuild the core UI library from scratch; a clean slate I mostly found terrifying.
When Ulta made the big leap from Sketch to Figma, I excitedly volunteered to join the design system migration team. The task? Rebuild the core UI library from the ground up. This meant buttons, inputs, cards, the whole shelf. Working alongside product, engineering, research, accessibility partners, and with a little help from our friends at Big Medium and Figma, we turned Palette into a modern, scalable system: consistent across 100+ products, faster to ship, and WCAG-compliant out of the box.
