Here’s why you need a WCAG friendly digital design system
- 9 MIN Development, UI & UX Design
There is something very pleasing and comforting about consistency to us humans. We don’t just like the familiar, we love it. That’s one reason why as brands we don’t change our logo every week, or use 18 different fonts across our website.

A digital design system — the evolved brand style guide
Imagine you had 40,000 software developers and 10 designers working on one project, that’s the situation GE faced, in 2012. Now, imagine each of those designers and developers crawling through the company server to find a PDF, or even a link to the PDF. That’s when GE decided to build their first design system.
A design system makes an organisation design scalable and capable of evolution. So, when an organisation is releasing a new product or introducing new pieces of collateral or just anything requiring the brand touch the design system can be updated.
The system is also highly accessible and can live within the creative programs designers use, such as Photoshop and Sketch. It puts a brand right at our fingertips.
Then, there’s the shareability aspect helping to create brand consistency with clients, agencies as well as developers.

Imagine you had 40,000 software developers and 10 designers working on one project, that’s the situation GE faced, in 2012. Now, imagine each of those designers and developers crawling through the company server to find a PDF, or even a link to the PDF. That’s when GE decided to build their first design system.
A design system makes an organisation design scalable and capable of evolution. So, when an organisation is releasing a new product or introducing new pieces of collateral or just anything requiring the brand touch the design system can be updated.
The system is also highly accessible and can live within the creative programs designers use, such as Photoshop and Sketch. It puts a brand right at our fingertips.
Then, there’s the shareability aspect helping to create brand consistency with clients, agencies as well as developers.
As the modern style guide there’s one thing we think it must have...
And, that’s accessibility guidelines.

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