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💅🏻 ⚒ A collection of awesome design systems

AI summary: A meticulously curated, comprehensive collection of top-tier design systems, component libraries, and UI guidelines.

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Watchers: 468
Open issues: 0
Open PRs: 24
Contributors: ~185
Commits: 553
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UnlicenseCreated Jun 6, 2017Last push 5mo ago+51 stars this week+197 this month

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What is awesome-design-systems?: A meticulously curated, comprehensive collection of top-tier design systems, component libraries, and UI guidelines.
What does awesome-design-systems do?: This repository provides a highly organized and comprehensive index of exemplary design systems from major organizations worldwide. It functions as a centralized directory for developers, designers, and product managers to discover and analyze how industry leaders structure their visual language and component libraries. The collection categorizes systems based on their underlying technologies and available resources, providing direct links to source code, documentation, and live examples. By compiling these resources, it serves as an invaluable reference tool for teams establishing or refining their own design standards.
Who is awesome-design-systems for?: UX/UI designers, frontend engineers, and product managers who are researching, building, or maintaining a design system and need references from industry leaders.
How popular is awesome-design-systems on GitHub?: alexpate/awesome-design-systems has 26,063 stars and 1,665 forks on GitHub, and gained 51 stars in the last 7 days.
What license does awesome-design-systems use?: alexpate/awesome-design-systems is released under the Unlicense license.

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What awesome-design-systems does

This repository provides a highly organized and comprehensive index of exemplary design systems from major organizations worldwide. It functions as a centralized directory for developers, designers, and product managers to discover and analyze how industry leaders structure their visual language and component libraries. The collection categorizes systems based on their underlying technologies and available resources, providing direct links to source code, documentation, and live examples. By compiling these resources, it serves as an invaluable reference tool for teams establishing or refining their own design standards.

UX/UI designers, frontend engineers, and product managers who are researching, building, or maintaining a design system and need references from industry leaders.

Extensive System Directory: Catalogs a massive variety of established design systems from well-known global tech companies and governments.
Technology Breakdown: Clearly identifies which design systems provide React, Vue, Web Components, or raw CSS implementations.
Direct Resource Links: Provides immediate access to official documentation, source code repositories, and interactive component playgrounds.
Open Source Focus: Highlights design systems that are publicly accessible and often open source, facilitating easy code review and adaptation.
Community Driven Updates: Continuously refined and expanded by contributions from the broader design and development community.

Where teams use it

Design System Research

Product teams exploring the repository to understand how leading companies document and structure their UI components and design tokens.

Component Architecture Benchmarking

Frontend engineers reviewing the source code of established systems to learn best practices for building scalable React component libraries.

UI Inspiration

Designers browsing various style guides to gather inspiration for typography, color palettes, and interactive component states.

Framework Selection

Developers using the list to quickly find robust, open-source component libraries that support their specific frontend tech stack.

README

master branch

Know a resource that isn't listed below? Feel free to create a new pull request.

A design system is a collection of documentation on principles and best practices, that helps guide a team to build digital products. They are often embodied in UI libraries and pattern libraries, but can extend to include guides on other areas such as 'Voice and Tone'.

Tags

Components: Contains coded patterns and examples.
Voice & Tone: Provides guidance on how language should be used.
Designers Kit: Includes a Sketch/Photoshop/Figma/etc. file for designers.
Source code: Publicly viewable source code

	Components	Voice & Tone	Designers Kit	Source code *
Aalto University	👍	👍	👍
Adobe Spectrum	👍	👍	👍
Adjust Atlas	👍	👍	👍
Alaska Airlines	👍	👍	👍
Alibaba Ant Design	👍	👍	👍
Amplify UI	👍	👍	👍
Appear Here Styleguide	👍
Apple Developer Design Guidelines			👍
Aragon UI	👍
Artsy Palette	👍
Astro UXDS	👍		👍
AT UIKIT	👍
Atlassian Design System	👍	👍	👍	👾
Audi UI Kit	👍		👍
Aurora (Government of Canada)	👍	👍	👍
AutoGuru Overdrive	👍
AWS Cloudscape Design System	👍	👍	👍
Backpack (Skyscanner)	👍	👍	👍
Basis Design System	👍
BBC GEL (Global Experience Language)	👍	👍	👍
Bento DS	👍		👍
BLiP	👍
Blueprint	👍		👍
Bold (Bridge Design System)	👍		👍
Bolt Design System	👍
Braid Design System	👍
British Gas Nucleus	👍	👍
Buildit Gravity	👍
Bumbag UI	👍
BuzzFeed Solid	👍		👍
Buzzvil Design System	👍	👍
CA Technologies Mineral UI	👍
CBRE Blocks	👍	👍
Cedar	👍		👍
Chakra UI	👍
City of Boston Fleet	👍	👍
Cloudflare	👍
Co-op Experience Library	👍	👍	👍
Contentful Forma 36	👍	👍	👍
Decathlon Design System - Vitamin	👍		👍
Decentraland UI	👍
Duet	👍		👍
Duolingo		👍
eBay Skin	👍
Elastic UI Framework	👍	👍	👍
ENGIE Fluid Design System	👍		👍
Enel	👍
Enigma Boundless	👍
Estonia Country Design Guidelines	👍	👍	👍
Evergreen	👍
Financial Times Origami	👍
Finland Toolbox		👍	👍
Firefox Photon Design System	👍	👍	👍
Flowbite Design System	👍		👍
Fluent UI	👍	👍	👍
Foundation	👍	👍	👍
Foyer Design System	👍		👍	🔐
French Government Design System	👍	👍	👍
FutureLearn Pattern Library	👍
GitHub Primer	👍		👍
GitLab Design System - Pajamas	👍	👍	👍	🦊
GoodBarber Design System	👍
Google Material Design	👍	👍	👍
GOV.UK Design System	👍
Gympass Yoga	👍	👍
HashiCorp Helios	👍	👍	👍
Help Scout	👍	👍
Heroku Purple3	👍
Hewlett Packard grommet	👍
HubSpot Canvas	👍	👍
Hudl Design System	👍	👍
IBM Carbon	👍	👍	👍
IBM Design Language	👍	👍
IBM Northstar	👍	👍
Intuit Harmony	👍	👍	👍
Italia Design System	👍	👍	👍
JB Design System	👍	👍
JetBrains Ring UI	👍
Jobber (🔱 Atlantis)	👍
Just Eat Takeaway.com PIE Design System	👍		👍
Kaizen	👍	👍
KoliBri (Public-UI)	👍
Kontur	👍		👍
Korea Design System	👍	👍	👍
Lexicon	👍	👍
Louder Than Ten Manual	👍	👍
Mail.ru Group Paradigm	👍	👍	👍
Mailchimp Content Styleguide		👍
Mantine	👍
Marvel Styleguide	👍
Material Minimal	👍	👍	👍
Materialize CSS	👍		👍
Mesh Design System	👍		👍
Microsoft Fluent	👍		👍
Mixpanel Design System	👍	👍
MongoDB Design System	👍		👍
Monzo Tone of Voice		👍
Morningstar Design System	👍	👍	👍
Mozilla Protocol	👍
NASA Web Design System	👍
NationBuilder Radius	👍
NHS.UK Service Manual	👍	👍
Nordhealth	👍		👍
New York State Design System	👍		👍
Nordnet	👍	👍
Okta Odyssey Design System	👍		👍
Ontario Design System	👍		👍	🌐
Oracle Redwood	👍		👍
Persona Design System	👍	👍
Pharos: JSTOR's Design System	👍	👍
Pinterest Gestalt	👍
Pivotal	👍
Pluralsight Design System	👍
Porsche Design System	👍		👍
Priceline Design System	👍	👍
Pusher Chameleon	👍
Radix	👍
Rambler	👍
Rendition	👍
Reshaped	👍		👍
Salesforce Lightning Design System	👍	👍	👍
Sage by Kajabi	👍
SAP Fiori	👍
SAP Fundamental	👍
SAP OpenUI	👍
Scania Digital Design System	👍		👍
Seeds	👍	👍	👍
SEEK Style Guide	👍
Semi Design	👍		👍
Semrush Intergalactic Design System	👍		👍
Shoelace	👍	👍
Shopify Polaris	👍	👍	👍
Shadcn/ui	👍
Siemens iX	👍	👍	👍
Singapore Government Design System	👍	👍	👍
Stacks – Stack Overflow	👍	👍
Starbucks Style Guide	👍	👍
Strapi Design System	👍
Teambition Clarity Design	👍
Telefónica Mística	👍		👍
Thumbprint	👍
Tizen CircularUI	👍		👍
Twilio Paste	👍	👍	👍
Uber's Base Web	👍
Ubuntu Vanilla framework	👍	👍	👍
Uiverse	👍	👍	👍
Untitled UI	👍		👍
uSwitch style guide	👍	👍
U.S. Web Design Standards	👍	👍	👍
U.S. CMS.gov Design System	👍
Vibe	👍		👍
Vimeo Design System	👍
VMware Clarity Design System	👍	👍	👍
VTEX Styleguide	👍		👍
Vue Design System	👍
Ray by WeWork	👍
Welcome UI	👍
West Midlands Network Design System	👍	👍
Wix Style React	👍
Vercel	👍
Workday Canvas	👍	👍
Yelp Styleguide	👍	👍
Zendesk Garden	👍

Notes

*Projects marked as open source may not always be open to use. Always check the license of these projects before using them.

Although 'design systems', 'ui libraries', and 'pattern libraries' are different things, they are often used interchangeably. This list contains all three.

Credits

Cover icon: 'Solar System' by Andrejs Kirma from the Noun Project

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