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title: Designs Overview
description: "Think Crew's Design system empowers you to create visually distinctive and informative production strips that clearly communicate important information at a glance. The Design feature is a powerful tool that helps you customize how your schedule appears, making it easier…"
url: "https://help.thinkcrew.com/knowledgebase/designs-overview/"
updated: "2026-10-11"
category: Schedule Page / Designs
tags:
  - Designs
  - Palettes
  - Strips
  - Video Tutorial
---

# Designs Overview

Think Crew's Design system empowers you to create visually distinctive and informative production strips that clearly communicate important information at a glance. The Design feature is a powerful tool that helps you customize how your schedule appears, making it easier for your team to interpret schedule information quickly and accurately.

## Understanding Designs

In Think Crew, a Design is a collection of strip templates and color palettes that determine how your schedule boards will look. Designs allow you to:

- **Standardize visual communication** across your production
- **Highlight critical information** through customized strip layouts
- **Create visual hierarchies** with consistent color schemes
- **Improve schedule readability** with thoughtful information placement

## Components of the Design System

The Design system consists of three main components:

**1. Designs:** The overall container that houses your strip templates and palettes. You can create multiple designs for different projects or scheduling scenarios.

**2. Strips:** Templates that define what information appears on a schedule strip and how it's arranged. You can create different strip templates for various purposes (strip, banner or day break).

**3. Palettes:** Collections of colors used to visually distinguish different types of elements on your schedule board. Well-designed color palettes make it easier to identify element types at a glance.

## Accessing Design Features

To access the Design features in Think Crew:

1. Navigate to a schedule
2. Open the schedule you want to customize
3. From the top menu, select "Manage / Designs"

From here, you can create new designs, modify existing ones, and apply them to your schedule boards. Think Crew also includes several pre-built design templates to help you get started quickly.

The Design system is a cornerstone of effective visual scheduling in Think Crew, helping your production team work more efficiently through clear, consistent visual communication.

Here is a video that covers designing a strip:

[![](https://help.thinkcrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/tc_designer_thumbnail_01_youtube-1024x576.jpg)](https://youtu.be/-0KEGg6p9GA)