Designsystemet

Improving the Deployment Experience

Designsystemet is a national, shared design system for public digital services in Norway. It provides reusable UI components, patterns, and guidelines that help teams create consistent, accessible, and high-quality user experiences across services.

The design system is open source and maintained as a shared public resource to reduce duplication and support efficient development. to a workshop-ready collaboration tool

Altinn Studio is a platform used by public sector teams to build and publish digital services.


This case shows how I worked to improve the deployment experience — a step that technically existed, but was often forgotten or misunderstood.

Designsystemet is a national, shared design system for public digital services in Norway. It provides reusable UI components, patterns, and guidelines that help teams create consistent, accessible, and high-quality user experiences across services.

The design system is open source and maintained as a shared public resource to reduce duplication and support efficient development. to a workshop-ready collaboration tool

My contributions

I started my journey at Digdir on the national design system team, Designsystemet, where I contributed to components, documentation and the launch of version 1.

I started my journey at Digdir on the national design system team, Designsystemet, where I contributed to components, documentation and the launch of version 1.

I contributed to developing and adjusting components, and wrote Storybook documentation, including guidelines and usage examples.

I contributed to developing and adjusting components, and wrote Storybook documentation, including guidelines and usage examples.

I also wrote an article about how to use modes in our Figma plugin and contributed to the official launch of version 1 in March 2025.

In addition, I took on smaller tasks related to animation and video editing.

Through this work, I learned the importance of accessibility, documentation and collaboration when developing a national design system that serves a wide range of users and teams.

I also wrote an article about how to use modes in our Figma plugin and contributed to the official launch of version 1 in March 2025.

In addition, I took on smaller tasks related to animation and video editing.

Through this work, I learned the importance of accessibility, documentation and collaboration when developing a national design system that serves a wide range of users and teams.