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Kurocado Studio’s Design System provides a unified set of reusable components, patterns, and guidelines to ensure consistency and efficiency across both internal and client-facing web or mobile applications. It covers visual design, component interactions, accessibility standards, and best practices. This system allows product teams to launch new features and interfaces quickly—while maintaining a polished, on-brand user experience.
Objectives
Improve Visual Consistency Ensure each product or feature across Kurocado Studio follows the same visual language, from typography and color palettes to interactive elements and layouts.
Accelerate UI/UX Development Provide a library of ready-to-use React (or framework of choice) components that decrease development time and reduce the need for re-implementing standard UI elements.
Enhance Accessibility Enforce accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG 2.1) through pre-configured component behaviors, ensuring compliance from the start.
Enable Customization for Clients Offer an easy way for clients to fork and adapt the Design System to meet their specific branding or accessibility requirements (e.g.,
@OUR_ORG—CLIENT_NAME—DESIGN_SYSTEMon NPM).
Use Cases
Internal Product Teams
Quickly prototype, iterate, and deploy new user interfaces that share a consistent look and feel across the company’s portfolio.
Rely on a single source of truth for branding guidelines and functional components.
External Collaborators
Freelancers or external design agencies can adopt the same components, ensuring a cohesive user experience without duplicating UI efforts.
Align with established design and branding requirements through a self-documenting component library.
Client-Facing Projects
Clients can adopt Kurocado Studio’s Design System to maintain consistency with our best practices while customizing the aesthetic to fit their brand.
Potential for creating and publishing a forked version (e.g.,
@CLIENT_ORG/design-system) with minimal overhead.
Scope & Constraints
In Scope
Core UI Component Library
Buttons, forms, navigation, layout grids, and other foundational elements.
Design Tokens and Theming
Color palette, typography scales, spacing units, and iconography.
Documentation and Usage Guidelines
Code examples, live component previews, and step-by-step “how to integrate” guides.
Accessibility
Built-in support for ARIA attributes, and other accessibility considerations.
Internationalization
Built-in support for language toggling, and other i18n considerations.
Automated CI/CD Workflows
Linting, testing, and publishing pipelines to ensure code quality and ease of updates.
Out of Scope
Internationalization
Discovery needed
Constraints
Branding Adaptability vs. Consistency
Must strike a balance between providing robust customization hooks and enforcing studio-wide standards.
Resource Allocation
Limited design or dev resources may focus on the highest-priority components first.
Tooling Integration
Must integrate seamlessly with established tools like Storybook, or GitHub Actions without causing friction in existing workflows.
Key Milestones
Foundational Components Release |
Success Criteria
Design & Code Quality
UI Consistency All applications or websites using the Design System maintain a unified look and feel.
Accessibility Scores Achieve and maintain at least AA compliance on critical UI components.
Development Speed
Reduced Handovers Minimize back-and-forth between design and dev teams by providing fully documented components.
Onboarding Efficiency New developers can integrate the Design System into a project (or begin prototyping) within 5 minutes.
Adoption & Collaboration
Internal Uptake All new Kurocado Studio projects begin with or migrate to the Design System components.
Client Customization Clients successfully publish and maintain their own variants (i.e.,
@OUR_ORG—CLIENT_NAME—DESIGN_SYSTEMor@CLIENT_ORG/design-system).