Awesome Design Principles
A curated collection of resources and projects focused on Design Principles.
Contents
- Principles within bigger Design Systems
- Articles about Design Principles
- Other Resources
- Credits and Notes
Principles within bigger Design Systems
- Alibaba Ant Design Principles
- Apple Human Interface Principles
- Atlassian Brand Personality
- Co-op Design Principles
- Firefox Photon Design System Principles
- Google Material Design Principles
- GOV.uk Design Principles
- Harmony Design System Voice & Tone Principles
- IBM Carbon Design Principles
- Lost My Name Design System Principles
- Mailchimp Writing Goals and Principles
- Nachos - Trello’s Design System Principles
- Seek Style Guide Principles
- Shopify Polaris Principles
- U.S. Web Design Principles
Articles about Design Principles
- Design Principles - a Guide - Good introduction and best practices.
- Developing Asanas Design Principles - Inside article on how Asana developed their principles.
- The Core Principles of UI Design - Short excerpt from Fundamental UI Design, an InVision e-course by Jane Portman.
- Design Principles Guide to less shitty Feedback - Short introduction and practical guide on how to set design principles (with examples)
Other Resources
- Built Environment Innovation Design - Lists professional design disciplines associated with built environment ventures and describes their roles (part of an open source project based learning challenge curricula).
- Learn Design Principles - Learn how design principles can be applied from architecture to product design.
- Design Principles FTW - “The biggest collection of Design Principles on the Internet.”
- principles.adactio.com - Huge list with various types of more traditional design principles.
- Principles of User Interface Design - Long list with well explained principles by Joshua Porter
- Principles of Product Design - Long list with well explained principles by Joshua Porter
Credits and Notes
This list is heavily inspired by Awesome Design Systems by Alex Pate. As an UX designer I find myself writing design and/or experience principles quite often. I created this list for reference and to get inspiration for better design principles.