Orion Design System — Scaling consistency across teams and platforms
Role
Design Systems Specialist
Year
2022 - 2025...
Context & Vision
Orion was born out of a challenge: how do you unify experiences across dozens of platforms — without flattening their identity?
At Roberts Space Industries, we operate a galaxy of products: pledge store, Subscribers flow, Community Hub, CMS, launcher, marketing, support tools. Each had grown with its own logic, its own design DNA.
A redesigned home, with Orion as the foundation
This wasn’t just a redesign. It was a structural realignment.
Structure & Components
Orion is built on a token-first model. From foundational variables to full responsive layouts, everything is connected.
Capable of adapting content based on layout type, variant, and purpose.
Featured content, media, updates. Whether it's onboarding or marketing, every page is built on the same atomic system.
This flexibility is what allows Orion to power over a dozen distinct RSI products today.
Methodology & Governance
This system doesn’t scale by accident — it scales through process. That includes accessibility: W3C standards were part of every review, from color contrast to keyboard navigation.
The Section component is a true super-component, built to adapt across layouts, themes, and content types. I helped shape its taxonomy and variables, making it key to scalable design and documentation at RSI.
This is how a single component (like “Section”) changes depending on content types, user roles, themes, or page logic.
Like surfacing game highlights or media first when context requires. The breakdown of control: what’s editable vs. structured by system logic.
I contributed directly to the Storybook integration, taxonomy overhaul, and token system governance.
See the Design System in action
Orion powers the design and development of the entire Roberts Space Industries platform. Explore the Figma files to see how we manage tokens, foundations, and reusable components in real projects.
Tokens
See components
Product Flexibility & Theming
A design system must scale across brands — without breaking.
Orion is our answer to the scale, the legacy, and the ambition behind RSI.
Orion adapts to platform brands. Visual systems entirely defined by Its tokens.
Reveals the modular approach to our product pages and featured content.
Every site, every product, is designed to adapt.
From colors to grid, every layer of theming is systematized.
Culture & Collaboration
We don’t just design components — we design the way we work.
PLT, Artemis, and Orion, collaborating in real-time.
Intergalactic Aerospace Expo Theme
Aopoa Theme.
Starting from design files, then pushing into real implementation across marketing, CMS, and product.
Brands, tools, and systems that Orion now supports.
Proving the system isn’t theoretical. It ships. It scales. And it performs.
I’ve led documentation initiatives and supported live design QA for event rollouts, while collaborating on plugin tools to streamline these workflows.
Team
The final is our people. The team behind the system. Behind the results.
I’ve worked closely with Kimberly (Design Lead), supporting both strategy and hands-on contribution — from naming to layout logic to adoption.
Also, special thanks to Edern, Amanda, Mathieu, Mathilde W, Etienne, Marie-Pier, Alexandre, Barbara, Meera, Thomas, Thi, Weslley, and to all the collaborators across RSI who supported, challenged, and trusted me throughout this journey.
Gabriel Marquis-Angulo
Designer
Orion Design System — Scaling consistency across teams and platforms
Role
Design Systems Specialist
Year
2022 - 2025...
Context & Vision
Orion was born out of a challenge: how do you unify experiences across dozens of platforms — without flattening their identity?
At Roberts Space Industries, we operate a galaxy of products: pledge store, Subscribers flow, Community Hub, CMS, launcher, marketing, support tools. Each had grown with its own logic, its own design DNA.
A redesigned home, with Orion as the foundation
This wasn’t just a redesign. It was a structural realignment.
Structure & Components
Orion is built on a token-first model. From foundational variables to full responsive layouts, everything is connected.
Capable of adapting content based on layout type, variant, and purpose.
Featured content, media, updates. Whether it's onboarding or marketing, every page is built on the same atomic system.
This flexibility is what allows Orion to power over a dozen distinct RSI products today.
Methodology & Governance
This system doesn’t scale by accident — it scales through process. That includes accessibility: W3C standards were part of every review, from color contrast to keyboard navigation.
The Section component is a true super-component, built to adapt across layouts, themes, and content types. I helped shape its taxonomy and variables, making it key to scalable design and documentation at RSI.
This is how a single component (like “Section”) changes depending on content types, user roles, themes, or page logic.
Like surfacing game highlights or media first when context requires. The breakdown of control: what’s editable vs. structured by system logic.
I contributed directly to the Storybook integration, taxonomy overhaul, and token system governance.
See the Design System in action
Orion powers the design and development of the entire Roberts Space Industries platform. Explore the Figma files to see how we manage tokens, foundations, and reusable components in real projects.
Tokens
See components
Product Flexibility & Theming
A design system must scale across brands — without breaking.
Orion is our answer to the scale, the legacy, and the ambition behind RSI.
Orion adapts to platform brands. Visual systems entirely defined by Its tokens.
Reveals the modular approach to our product pages and featured content.
Every site, every product, is designed to adapt.
From colors to grid, every layer of theming is systematized.
Culture & Collaboration
We don’t just design components — we design the way we work.
PLT, Artemis, and Orion, collaborating in real-time.
Intergalactic Aerospace Expo Theme
Aopoa Theme.
Starting from design files, then pushing into real implementation across marketing, CMS, and product.
Brands, tools, and systems that Orion now supports.
Proving the system isn’t theoretical. It ships. It scales. And it performs.
I’ve led documentation initiatives and supported live design QA for event rollouts, while collaborating on plugin tools to streamline these workflows.
Team
The final is our people. The team behind the system. Behind the results.
I’ve worked closely with Kimberly (Design Lead), supporting both strategy and hands-on contribution — from naming to layout logic to adoption.
Also, special thanks to Edern, Amanda, Mathieu, Mathilde W, Etienne, Marie-Pier, Alexandre, Barbara, Meera, Thomas, Thi, Weslley, and to all the collaborators across RSI who supported, challenged, and trusted me throughout this journey.
Gabriel Marquis-Angulo
Designer
Contact
marquisangulo@gmail.com
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Orion Design System — Scaling consistency across teams and platforms
Role
Design Systems Specialist
Year
2022 - 2025...
Context & Vision
Orion was born out of a challenge: how do you unify experiences across dozens of platforms — without flattening their identity?
At Roberts Space Industries, we operate a galaxy of products: pledge store, Subscribers flow, Community Hub, CMS, launcher, marketing, support tools. Each had grown with its own logic, its own design DNA.
A redesigned home, with Orion as the foundation
This wasn’t just a redesign. It was a structural realignment.
Structure & Components
Orion is built on a token-first model. From foundational variables to full responsive layouts, everything is connected.
Capable of adapting content based on layout type, variant, and purpose.
Featured content, media, updates. Whether it's onboarding or marketing, every page is built on the same atomic system.
This flexibility is what allows Orion to power over a dozen distinct RSI products today.
Methodology & Governance
This system doesn’t scale by accident — it scales through process. That includes accessibility: W3C standards were part of every review, from color contrast to keyboard navigation.
The Section component is a true super-component, built to adapt across layouts, themes, and content types. I helped shape its taxonomy and variables, making it key to scalable design and documentation at RSI.
This is how a single component (like “Section”) changes depending on content types, user roles, themes, or page logic.
Like surfacing game highlights or media first when context requires. The breakdown of control: what’s editable vs. structured by system logic.
I contributed directly to the Storybook integration, taxonomy overhaul, and token system governance.
See the Design System in action
Orion powers the design and development of the entire Roberts Space Industries platform. Explore the Figma files to see how we manage tokens, foundations, and reusable components in real projects.
Tokens
See components
Product Flexibility & Theming
A design system must scale across brands — without breaking.
Orion is our answer to the scale, the legacy, and the ambition behind RSI.
Orion adapts to platform brands. Visual systems entirely defined by Its tokens.
Reveals the modular approach to our product pages and featured content.
Every site, every product, is designed to adapt.
From colors to grid, every layer of theming is systematized.
Culture & Collaboration
We don’t just design components — we design the way we work.
PLT, Artemis, and Orion, collaborating in real-time.
Intergalactic Aerospace Expo Theme
Aopoa Theme.
Starting from design files, then pushing into real implementation across marketing, CMS, and product.
Brands, tools, and systems that Orion now supports.
Proving the system isn’t theoretical. It ships. It scales. And it performs.
I’ve led documentation initiatives and supported live design QA for event rollouts, while collaborating on plugin tools to streamline these workflows.
Team
The final is our people. The team behind the system. Behind the results.
I’ve worked closely with Kimberly (Design Lead), supporting both strategy and hands-on contribution — from naming to layout logic to adoption.
Also, special thanks to Edern, Amanda, Mathieu, Mathilde W, Etienne, Marie-Pier, Alexandre, Barbara, Meera, Thomas, Thi, Weslley, and to all the collaborators across RSI who supported, challenged, and trusted me throughout this journey.
Gabriel Marquis-Angulo
Designer
Contact
marquisangulo@gmail.com
Read.cv