Content & guidelines

Lessons in this group, roughly in build order:

  • guidelines — Guidelines are the prose rules that tell consumers when, where, and how to use a component or pattern —…
  • microcopy-guidelines — Microcopy guidelines are the rules for the small in-product text a design system owns — button labels,…
  • naming — Naming is the convention that makes tokens, components, props, and variants predictable enough to guess —…
  • code-style — Code style is the set of formatting and structural conventions every component in the library follows,…
  • commit-guidelines — Commit guidelines standardize commit message structure so a design system’s history is machine-readable —…
  • contribution-guidelines — Contribution guidelines define how someone proposes, builds, and lands a change to the design system — the…