ICS Web
Design System

ICS Web
Design System

Web

Design System

Year

2025

Team

UX (Anneloes ter Harmsel, Herald Boer)

Scope
  • Multi-brand web design system

  • Platform migration

  • Token architecture

  • Component system

Role
  • Led the visual implementation of the new brand identity across the ICS web platform

  • Defined web-specific semantic tokens building on the existing multi-channel variable system

  • Restyled and standardized core components across multiple websites

  • Created documentation and usage guidelines to support system adoption and future extension

  • Conducted design QA during migration to maintain consistency across brands

Implementing a multi-brand web design system for ICS during a platform migration, translating a new brand identity into scalable tokens and components across multiple websites.

The system establishes a shared foundation for future web products while allowing controlled variation across ICS brands.

The new brand identity was introduced through the existing web component system to ensure consistency across multiple websites. Early concept explorations helped align stakeholders on how key brand elements could translate into reusable components before system-level implementation.

Given the scale of the migration, user-experience changes were intentionally minimal and targeted to areas that supported conversion and brand expression while preserving established navigation patterns.

An initial concept presentation was used to align stakeholders by visualizing how key brand elements could be applied consistently across web components, setting clear direction before system-level implementation.

An initial concept presentation was used to align stakeholders by visualizing how key brand elements could be applied consistently across web components, setting clear direction before system-level implementation.

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Before and after of Hompage

The homepage refresh demonstrates how brand updates were introduced without disrupting existing navigation structures or content hierarchy.

1/2 Before and after of Hompage

System Architecture

To support multiple brands during the migration, the web design system was structured into four layers

  • Primitive tokens: shared typography, color, and spacing variables used across channels

  • Semantic tokens: web-specific variables translating design intent into reusable roles

  • Components: modular UI elements built on the token system and adaptable across brands

  • Pages: composed templates developed with UX and stakeholders to support different content and conversion goals

This layered structure allowed brand expression to vary while preserving a consistent underlying system.

An existing variable library containing primitive tokens for typography, color, and spacing served as the system foundation, ensuring cross-channel alignment.

Where required, new values were introduced to support accessibility improvements and the updated brand identity.

An existing variable library containing primitive tokens for typography, color, and spacing served as the system foundation, ensuring cross-channel alignment.

Where required, new values were introduced to support accessibility improvements and the updated brand identity.

On top of this foundation, a semantic token layer was defined for web usage, enabling consistent application of design intent while allowing individual brands to express their identity within shared constraints.

Documentation

Clear documentation and visual examples were created to explain token usage, color roles, and component behavior, supporting handover and future extension of the system.

Multi-Brand Implementation

Example pages demonstrate how the system supports the main ICS brand alongside multiple sub-brands, allowing visual variation without fragmenting the underlying structure.

Page examples of a main brand (ICS) and two sub brands.