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Mitsubishi Electric is speeding up its digital transformation across the enterprise through UI/UX design unification via the design tool Figma and their own design system called Serendie Design System (SDS). The company benefits from collaboration between designers, developers, and business departments via the common design language, which will help them improve efficiency of digital product development as well as create more consistent solutions for the wide range of industrial, infrastructure, automotive and consumer segments.
The development demonstrates a general trend in the Japanese manufacturing industry, where design platforms become strategic tools rather than mere creative instruments for companies developing software-powered products and services.
Building a Unified Design Ecosystem
Serendie Design System by Mitsubishi Electric was developed for the purpose of improving the pace and quality of UI development in the company. The SDS is based on Figma’s collaborative design tooling and is combined with the React front-end framework to provide reusable UI components, guidelines for interface design, and workflows that allow for effective teamwork between professionals from various functional areas.
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Designers and developers will not have to create interfaces from scratch each time but will be able to use a library of components, thus saving time and providing a unified user experience in all of their projects.
Also, the design system is open-source which means that it is possible to collaborate with external partners, developers, and customers through the company’s innovation initiative – Serendie.
Why Design Systems Matter for Industrial Companies
Whereas design systems have already become widespread within software companies, it has now become essential to implement such systems by industrial businesses that undergo digital transformation.
Contemporary manufacturers no longer just sell hardware equipment but rather offer software solutions, cloud dashboards, artificial intelligence-based analytical capabilities, monitoring systems, and other digital services, which all require user-friendly design.
In the case of an organization such as Mitsubishi Electric, having to maintain consistency in hundreds of different digital applications becomes rather complicated without implementing consistent design frameworks.
The use of the collaborative platform Figma allows for the collaboration between product managers, designers, engineers, and software developers.
Driving Japan’s Digital Transformation
This program is an example of how Japan is becoming more focused on people-centered digital transformation.
The Japanese industry is making huge investments in AI, industrial IoT, smart factories, and digital twins. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of these technologies does not depend only on advanced software; it also requires good user interface that will help both staff and clients work with it.
Having a consistent design system helps to create better digital experiences at a lower cost.
With a higher need to modernize legacy systems in Japanese companies, the need for collaborative design tools, low-code development, and enterprise UX will rise.
Opportunities Across the Technology Industry
The implementation of design systems at an enterprise level by Mitsubishi Electric opens up various opportunities for Japan’s technology environment.
Firms that develop solutions such as software tools that help with collaboration in design, developer tools, cloud platforms, and application lifecycle management will certainly be in demand with organizations wanting a holistic process that connects design, development, and deployment together.
The introduction also brings into focus the convergence of design and software engineering. Digital products nowadays need collaboration between designers, developers, data scientists, and AI engineers to achieve quick and high-quality output from product development processes.
Technology consultancies working on modernizing enterprises can certainly expect increased demand for their services.
Improving Business Agility Through Collaboration
Among the numerous benefits of using cloud services such as Figma is better collaboration in an organization.
In classical product development process, design, engineering, and business departments work independently from each other, causing delays. Through collaborative cloud solutions, stakeholders have an opportunity to review, make changes to, and approve design solutions instantly, avoiding development problems.
The collaboration of teams in global organizations like Mitsubishi Electric helps ensure consistency of branding, usability, and accessibility of the product worldwide.
Reusability of components makes the onboarding process easier and reduces the efforts needed to maintain digital products.
A Competitive Advantage for Japan’s Manufacturing Sector
The investment of Mitsubishi Electric in collaborative design infrastructure highlights that the process of digital transformation goes far beyond the integration of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Design systems have been gaining prominence as foundational technologies for enhancing the quality of software, accelerating innovations, and increasing collaboration.
With industrial businesses increasingly competing through digital services as opposed to just hardware, the importance of user experience will keep on growing.
By integrating the collaborative features of Figma with their proprietary Serendie Design System, Mitsubishi Electric will be able to develop software-enabled products effectively and also enhance their digital transformation efforts. This move is indicative of the trend in the Japanese tech and manufacturing industries where the importance of standardization of designs, agility, and collaboration is increasingly becoming critical to compete in the digital economy.
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