Edison
Design System

GE Healthcare's products span imaging, monitoring, and clinical workflow — software used in life-and-death contexts, built by teams across the globe. Edison is the design system that unifies them: modular, accessible UI patterns rigorous enough for regulated environments and flexible enough for everything from radiology workstations to touch-screen devices.

I joined the Edison team as a senior design-systems contributor — this was a team effort, and the system predated and outlasted my engagement. My focus: scalable component libraries, theming, and the documentation that let diverse product teams adopt the system without translation loss.

Clinical software runs in radiology reading rooms at 2am and on bright surgical floors — Edison ships light and dark themes across desktop and touch targets, resolved from shared foundations so components never fork. Four theme targets from one semantic layer.

My hands-on contributions centered on component libraries and UX documentation: notification patterns, steppers and progress, form controls, and the icon library — each with full state coverage and accessibility behavior documented for regulated review.

When WCAG compliance is a legal requirement, accessibility stops being a checklist and becomes architecture. That discipline is baked into every component I've shipped since.

The team's work earned the 2020 Red Dot Award for Interface Design — I played a central role in the system work behind that recognition, alongside designers, engineers, and accessibility specialists across GE Healthcare.

Edison remains the reference point I use for what enterprise-scale system governance looks like done right. Big systems are social systems. The hardest problems weren't visual — they were alignment across dozens of teams. Documentation written for adoption, not posterity, was the difference.