What is Pistachio?

At Marley Spoon, we have a unique challenge: we have several distinct brands that share a single underlying technological platform.

Pistachio is how we’re meeting this challenge. It’s a design system: a living system of guidelines, reusable code, design assets, and tools that help us deliver a delightful experiences at scale.

The benefits of our design system are:

• Do more with less. Whenever we design and build a new feature, we use Pistachio as the basis for our work. This lets us design, validate, and ship more quickly, across all of our brands at once.
• Get the details right. By having a single source of truth for all of our digital platforms, we create consistency for our brand and user experience.
• Delight our customers. By using Pistachio as the basis for our work, we can constantly improve on our experience by building on well-defined and learned behaviours.

The Pistachio design system will eventually contain:

• Principles and goals
• Guidelines (for copywriting, UX & UI, and tech)
• Tools (a UI component library in Figma, pattern library, and more)
• Examples and best practices
• Brand identity assets

We have a long way to go, but we’re making Pistachio available today so that we can bring it into our work right away.

Want to learn more about design systems? Check out the book “Hack the design system” in the design library!