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Pinterest Business Marketing Web System

Pinterest business marketing was scaling fast, but the design systems behind it weren't keeping up. Motion, components, and layouts were all built in parallel — and every launch took more effort than it should.

Project info

A system-wide upgrade of the building blocks behind Pinterest's business marketing sites — reorganized by use case, architected for Contentful, and designed to grow without breaking.

Role

Senior System Designer

Collaborators

Philip Czapla(Design Lead)

Brand Design

Web Design

Design System

Interactive Design

CMS

Pinterest Business Marketing Web System

Pinterest business marketing was scaling fast, but the design systems behind it weren't keeping up. Motion, components, and layouts were all built in parallel — and every launch took more effort than it should.

Project info

A system-wide upgrade of the building blocks behind Pinterest's business marketing sites — reorganized by use case, architected for Contentful, and designed to grow without breaking.

Role

Senior System Designer

Collaborators

Philip Czapla(Design Lead)

Brand Design

Web Design

Design System

Interactive Design

CMS

Pinterest Business Marketing Web System

Pinterest business marketing was scaling fast, but the design systems behind it weren't keeping up. Motion, components, and layouts were all built in parallel — and every launch took more effort than it should.

Project info

A system-wide upgrade of the building blocks behind Pinterest's business marketing sites — reorganized by use case, architected for Contentful, and designed to grow without breaking.

Role

Senior System Designer

Collaborators

Philip Czapla(Design Lead)

Brand Design

Web Design

Design System

Interactive Design

CMS

Pinterest Business Marketing Web System

Pinterest business marketing was scaling fast, but the design systems behind it weren't keeping up. Motion, components, and layouts were all built in parallel — and every launch took more effort than it should.

Project info

A system-wide upgrade of the building blocks behind Pinterest's business marketing sites — reorganized by use case, architected for Contentful, and designed to grow without breaking.

Role

Senior System Designer

Collaborators

Philip Czapla(Design Lead)

Inconsistent components, redundant design work, and a process that slowed down instead of speeding up as the team scaled.

Inconsistent components, redundant design work, and a process that slowed down instead of speeding up as the team scaled.

I led the design of a full set of baseline components, organized into three use-case categories — Heroic, Functional, and Supporting — so teams could pick the right tool without guessing. Every component was built on a flexible CMS structure: configurable by layout direction, column count, alignment, and type scale, all managed through Contentful.

Immersive
Featured
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Semantic-based grid system

Semantic-based grid system

A responsive grid framework that uses semantic breakpoints to scale layouts consistently across devices. It relies on progressive compression and adaptive scaling to preserve hierarchy, maintain comfortable content widths, and reduce columns as screens shrink. By removing rigid tablet-specific breakpoints and using a single scalable logic above mobile, the system stays cohesive, predictable to build, and accessible.

01/Heroic

Bold storytelling

02/Supporting

Flexible reinforcement
Flexible reinforcement

03/Functional

Purpose-driven clarity
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One component,
Many configurations.

Same component, different variables

Same component, different variables

Every component decision was shaped by four principles: boundless scalability, more control, predictability, and a consistent animation throughline — flexible enough to grow, structured enough to hold.

Every component decision was shaped by four principles: boundless scalability, more control, predictability, and a consistent animation throughline — flexible enough to grow, structured enough to hold.

Outcome

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Baseline components upgraded into a coherent, extensible system.

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Baseline components upgraded into a coherent, extensible system.

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Baseline components upgraded into a coherent, extensible system.

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Use-case categories (Functional, Heroic, Supporting) for shared component vocabulary.

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Use-case categories (Functional, Heroic, Supporting) for shared component vocabulary.

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Use-case categories (Functional, Heroic, Supporting) for shared component vocabulary.

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Foundational systems shipped to engineering in Contentful, enabling design-free launches.

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Foundational systems shipped to engineering in Contentful, enabling design-free launches.

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Foundational systems shipped to engineering in Contentful, enabling design-free launches.

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