Design Systems Team/Vision

Provide a comprehensive, reusable, extensible way to design and build front ends on Wikimedia platforms by following a universal Design Style Guide and a shared development kit that codifies the visual and experience principles and guidelines in a library of user-interface (UI) components.

Current state of front-end development

 * Many user-interface libraries used by different teams and projects
 * Redundant effort for designers and engineers
 * Inconsistent designs
 * Inconsistent standards for contribution
 * Challenging to onboard
 * UIs depend on coupled backend logic

Ideal future-state of front-end development
 * Less feature redundancy
 * Consistent user experience across all Wikimedia projects
 * Accessible and multilingual by default
 * Standardized browser and device support
 * Faster onboarding
 * Faster software upgrades
 * Systems thinking: teams make an impact outside of immediate focus area