# Updating Illustrations at Scale

DevFeed: [Updating Illustrations at Scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/updating-illustrations-at-scale-1661.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/updating-illustrations-shopify-scale>)

Author: Emma Orhun

Published: 2021-06-03T20:48:53Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Primer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/primer.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [SVG](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/svg.md>), [pdf](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pdf.md>)

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## AI overview

This article describes how Shopify's Polaris team updated the illustration style across the Shopify product and addressed the difficulty of managing illustrations spread across more than 6,000 repositories. The team built an open source solution that helps illustrators find illustrations and their references in code across repositories, sort them by file size or reference count, and filter them by repository.

## Source excerpt

The Polaris team creates tools, education and documentation that helps unite teams across Shopify to build better experiences. We created Polaris, our design system, and continue to maintain it. We are a multidisciplinary team with a range of experience. Some people have been at Shopify for over 6 years and others, like me, are a part of our Dev Degree program.