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Empowering teams to deliver a consistent high quality web experience

Published 09/09/2019

There's been a fair amount of activity in the digital product space lately, and our teams have been releasing a lot of new exciting features on the web.

We're now truly beginning to see the fruits of the hard labour we've put into VCC UI and the upcoming Volvo Cars Design system, and yet, we've only just begun!

To highlight this achievement, we've collected a few insights from product teams on their experience of using VCC UI.

Care By Volvo

Our new car subscription service is gearing up! The team has recently deployed a brand new customized web experience to multiple markets.

By utilizing the shared components and tooling we've been able to do a complete product overhaul and launch in several markets on a very tight schedule. We can iterate fast, and we're able to feed learnings back to the VCC UI framework to the benefit of other teams and products.

Support site

The Onboarding & Support team in Stockholm have been hard at work improving the experience for our existing car owners.

Our team launched a new support website with the VCC UI framework at its core for the Design System and UI elements. Looking back, this would not have been doable on schedule and with quality without it. Notable time savers was definitely launching a RTL (Right-to-Left) language market (Arabic, Egypt). A breeze!

Car Configurator

The Car Configurator has been completely refactored and equipped with a new trims selection page which has performed significantly better than it's predecessor.

VCC UI has been a great source of foundational building blocks that are consistently kept up to date and improved upon. It has also provided a great way to avoid UX and Design fragmentation across products. As VCC UI has matured, so has our ability to create new well functioning and well designed software in an efficient manner.

Backstory: What is VCC UI?

VCC UI began last year as a collaboration between two product teams in our Gothenburg office. The initial goal of the project was to:

• Lower the unnecessary cost of design differences and implementations across product teams
• Provide a consistent Brand & UX journey for customers and end-users
• Increase developer happiness and productivity

Since we started, the project has now grown to serve a multitude of teams and projects across the company.

In short: We deliver high quality, battle tested UI components for the web. In addition we provide all the tooling you need to take your project from scratch to scale.

Building a web applications at Volvo Cars?

We are the Web UI Platform Team. Building something for the web? Get in touch with us! We have the experience, tools and infrastructure to get you started on your next web project.

If you are on the Consumer Digital Slack workspace, you can find us on the #vcc-ui and #design-system channels. If you are on Microsoft Teams find us at #Web Platform, In any case, feel free to send me an email at daniel.stocks (at) volvocars.com.