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Where the GOV.UK Design System is heading

This page details the future strategy of the GOV.UK Design System.

Vision statements

  • We will remain a design system for GOV.UK services, both transactional and non-transactional
  • We will support users to make better design decisions and build usable and accessible services
  • We won’t support custom branding or build an alternate generic brand
  • We won’t build components and patterns specifically for internal services
  • We will signpost to resources built by other community members
  • We will provide better support for users to adapt and extend the GOV.UK Design System
  • We will support consistency of the GOV.UK journey across different channels
  • We will continue to build “foundational” components and patterns. We won’t build every component
  • We will influence frontend strategy and policy across government services
  • We will help users understand how to use the Design System to prototype