IKEA’s Design System Skapa — How to build smart card components

In this session Caroline Dahl (Product Owner) and Jonatan Grönkvist (Senior Design System Designer) from IKEA share how they redesigned their card components to scale across 200+ product teams. They walk through their process, from discovering chaos across the organization to achieving 80% adoption on web. This session was recorded at the Into Design Systems meetup at Spotify HQ in Stockholm. Caroline and Jonatan give rare practical insights into Skapa, IKEA's mandatory digital design system that powers everything from the retail app to 75-inch in-store displays. Links Mentioned: Key Points • Flexibility drives adoption: IKEA's configurable cards work from mobile screens to 75-inch displays without custom builds. • 80% coverage is ambitious at scale. Aiming for 80% is really high at big organizations like IKEA. • Design systems are living organisms. They need to evolve with users and the business. • While writing documentation you discover gaps in your design thinking. You will realize you always missed something. • Accessibility is foundational, not optional. There's no WCAG pattern for cards, so IKEA created their own approach. • Collaboration across teams is essential. Full-stack teams with designers and developers from day one build ownership and trust. Learn the AI workflows top designers use AI Design Systems Conference 2027 on March 10 and 11 2027 online with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Netflix: https://www.intodesignsystems.com/ FIND US ON SOCIAL LinkedIn:   / into-design-systems   FIND CAROLINE ON SOCIAL LinkedIn:   / caroline-dahl-bb7b579   FIND JONATAN ON SOCIAL LinkedIn:   / jonatan-gronkvist   #designsystems #uidesign #intodesignsystems