CornerStone
Building the design system powering the ChurchSalary platform of 9 applications
Designing trust in complex salary systems
Information Architecture • Component Library
9-app platform • Design System
WHY A DESIGN SYSTEM WAS NEEDED
ChurchSalary was getting revamped. It was no longer a single product — it was nine. Salary reports, hybrid role analysis, cost-of-living lookups, and more, all serving the same churches but built at different times, under different priorities. Without a shared system, every new tool risked drifting further from the last.
CornerStone
ChurchSalary
I wanted Cornerstone to do two things at once: give every app inside ChurchSalary a consistent, trustworthy voice, and seamlessly integrate with the Gloo family — the broader ecosystem of products ChurchSalary belongs to, each with its own design system. That meant Cornerstone had to feel distinctly ChurchSalary while still speaking the same underlying visual language as its siblings.
FOUNDATIONS
Like most design systems, Cornerstone needed the fundamentals: color, typography, spacing, and a component library that could hold up across nine different surfaces. But the real challenge with dense, high-stakes financial data is that the basics have to work harder than usual — they're the difference between a number that reads as fact and a number that reads as noise.
Every choice — color, type scale, spacing — had a job to do in helping someone trust the data they were looking at.
COMPONENT LIBRARY
One of the biggest risks with nine separate apps is nine separate interpretations of the same idea — nine slightly different buttons, nine slightly different input fields. Cornerstone's component library was built to remove that risk: every team pulled from the same source, so consistency wasn't something anyone had to remember to maintain.
THE NINE APPS
SALARY REPORT
HYBRID REPORT
PRECISE REPORT
SALARY TABLE
JOB DESCRIPTION
GENERATOR
COST OF
LIVING ANALYSIS
MARKET
SURVEY MATCH
PRECISE
PREDICTION
STAFF AND GIVING
ANALYZER
WHAT THIS PROVES
I think in systems, not just screens
I think in systems, not just screens
Cornerstone is proof that I can operate at every level — from the name and logo of a design system down to the token that determines whether a number reads as positive or negative. Naming it, branding it, and scaling it across nine apps required the same instinct that runs through all of my work: making complex, high-stakes information feel calm, clear, and trustworthy.
Interested in working together?
Let's build something meaningful.
WHY A DESIGN SYSTEM WAS NEEDED
ChurchSalary was getting revamped. It was no longer a single product — it was nine. Salary reports, hybrid role analysis, cost-of-living lookups, and more, all serving the same churches but built at different times, under different priorities. Without a shared system, every new tool risked drifting further from the last.
CornerStone
ChurchSalary
I wanted Cornerstone to do two things at once: give every app inside ChurchSalary a consistent, trustworthy voice, and seamlessly integrate with the Gloo family — the broader ecosystem of products ChurchSalary belongs to, each with its own design system. That meant Cornerstone had to feel distinctly ChurchSalary while still speaking the same underlying visual language as its siblings.
FOUNDATIONS
Like most design systems, Cornerstone needed the fundamentals: color, typography, spacing, and a component library that could hold up across nine different surfaces. But the real challenge with dense, high-stakes financial data is that the basics have to work harder than usual — they're the difference between a number that reads as fact and a number that reads as noise.
Every choice — color, type scale, spacing — had a job to do in helping someone trust the data they were looking at.
COMPONENT LIBRARY
One of the biggest risks with nine separate apps is nine separate interpretations of the same idea — nine slightly different buttons, nine slightly different input fields. Cornerstone's component library was built to remove that risk: every team pulled from the same source, so consistency wasn't something anyone had to remember to maintain.
THE NINE APPS
SALARY
REPORT
HYBRID
REPORT
PRECISE
REPORT
SALARY
TABLE
JOB DESCRIPTION
GENERATOR
COST OF
LIVING ANALYSIS
MARKET
SURVEY MATCH
PRECISE
PREDICTION
STAFF AND
GIVING ANALYZER