OKRs examples for Design Systems
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We have a collection of OKRs examples for Design Systems to give you some inspiration. You can use any of the templates below as a starting point for your OKRs.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the meaning of OKRs online.
How to use these templates?
Quarterly OKRs should have weekly updates to get all the benefits from the framework.
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKRs-tracking platform to make things easier.
We recommend Tability for an easy way to set and track OKRs with your team.
Check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Design Systems OKRs templates
We've added Design Systems Objectives and Key Results, but also the initiatives that relate to the OKRs.
OKRs to achieve product consistency with our design system
Ensure product consistency with our design system.
Close 50% of all design inconsistency tickets
90% of our products are following the design system guidelines
Establish a process for quickly and accurately identifying violations of design system guidelines
Develop a system of rewards and recognition for those who adhere to design system guidelines
Create an audit process to track adherence to design system guidelines
Establish a comprehensive style guide that covers 100% of common components used by products
Create a comprehensive list of all common components used by products
Test the style guide against each component
Develop a unified style guide for each component
Implement the style guide into all products

OKRs to streamline graphic design processes
Develop a self-serve graphic assets library for internal use
Decrease the number of one-off design tickets by 50%
Make our entire brand guideline available
Design a useable Keynote template and share
Make brand colors accessible on our internal wiki
Develop 12 templates Marketing can reuse to build targeted ads
Build a knowledge base and roll out graphics library
Run 3 workshops with other teams explaining new library and how to work with designers
Create 2 knowledge base pages per week teaching team members how to work with our team
OKRs to scale development with a design system
Every team can build interfaces autonomously
80% of the teams are using the UI library to build new features
Release UI kit MVP
The Design System covers 100% of common UI components
List required components
Build library of components
Need more OKR examples?
Option 1: Use AI to generate OKRs
Try our OKRs generator, or use a goal-setting AI to generate great OKRs for you based on a description of your objectives.
Option 2: Check out other examples
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2022 OKRs guide for Startups
- To implement: Flowing OKRs: 14 rules to simplify OKRs
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: Success metrics examples