From the necessity to address challenges…
Like many organisations in the energy sector, Elia Group has experienced significant digital growth in the past decade. Although positive and pursued, this centrifugal expansion has presented several key challenges that we, the Nova Design System product team, are addressing:
- Growing number of decoupled applications and services leading to decentralisation across Elia Group.
- Multiplication of programming languages and frameworks hindering integration and recycling.
- Skyrocketing costs of design alignment and maintenance efforts across independent product team.
These challenges unambiguously prove the strategic imperative of –and for– a unified and digital product development approach at Elia Group.
…came the ambition to achieve objectives:
- Scalable development & design consistency
- Cross-framework front-end compatibility
- Design-to-development efficiency
- Centralised authority with contributor community
- Quick, easy brand & accessibility compliancy
- Significant return on investment (ROI) legacy
Digital idealism that thinks about the bottom-line
More than reacting by solving practicalities and streamlining processes, Nova anticipates future issues and relies on a solid business model, with four business value objectives:
- Expedite time-to-market of digital products
- Eliminate design and development redundancy costs
- Enhance accessibility and brand compliance
- Enable front-end adaptability