TermCraft conventionFoundational
Design System
The shared toolkit and rules a team designs and builds with.
Definition
A shared set of tokens, components, patterns and guidance, together with the governance that keeps them coherent.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
In plain language
The shared toolkit and rules a team designs and builds with.
Example
Tokens, a component library, documentation and a contribution process, maintained together.
Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Deeper reading
The full entry behind this definition.
- Design System DocumentationDesign system
- Design System GovernanceDesign system
- Design TokensDesign system
Related concept
Connected closely enough to change how you apply this.
- Atomic DesignTerm
- Component LibraryTerm
Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.