Design system tools Free to use
Shared UI should make your team’s work easier. These four tools help you assess what’s working, understand the cost of rework, and make the next decision.
No signup or installation. Tool inputs stay in your browser; shared scorecard results and calculator settings are included in their links.
Not sure where to start?
Take a structured look at your shared UI. Answer 32 prompts and get a breakdown of strengths, gaps, and suggested priorities for your team.
Take the assessmentAbout ten minutes. Based on your answers; a starting point for review.
Estimate the effort, try a shared design decision, or see how an issue becomes an actionable finding.
Making the case for shared UI?
Estimate the annual hours and cost of UI rework using your team size, product surfaces, hourly cost, and level of inconsistency. Adjust the inputs to compare scenarios.
A starting estimate for a planning or budget conversation. Every assumption is shown.
Estimate your reworkExplaining how tokens work?
Change spacing, corner radius, color, and density, then watch the sample components update together. Explore how shared design decisions reach an interface.
A live example you can use to discuss shared decisions with designers and engineers.
Try the playgroundDeciding what to fix first?
Inspect two example interfaces and reveal their inconsistencies. Read each finding with its severity and a suggested fix.
Example findings with severity, the affected interface, and a specific fix.
Inspect the examplesThese tools make parts of my approach tangible. The work shows the context: what I owned, the tradeoffs, and the result.
Source: https://joshuabriley.com/tools/