Figma × Mitsubishi Electric
Figma x Mitsubishi Electric, building a cross-company design language from scratch
Prototype build time from two weeks to one day
Fragmented, engineer-siloed design to shared, autonomous co-creation
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Why it works
The story leads with something Mitsubishi Electric genuinely could not do before: run a single design language across dozens of unrelated business units and open it to external partners as shared co-creation infrastructure. That is a net-new capability, not merely a faster version of existing design work. The efficiency gains (sprint duration halved, prototype time from two weeks to one day, support inquiries near zero) are substantial but secondary, which is a close call worth noting.
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The 'theming' architecture detail, one common component base with per-business-unit brand customization, gives the case study a concrete mechanism that readers in large, multi-brand organizations can immediately picture applying to their own situation.
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