Laying the foundations for the University of St Andrews Design System
How the insights from Andrew Couldwell’s Laying the Foundations have helped the University to create its own design system.
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Updates and explanations about the DPL
How the insights from Andrew Couldwell’s Laying the Foundations have helped the University to create its own design system.
The University of St Andrews is undergoing a transformative journey in digital design, marked by the development of a next-generation design system and pattern library for our website.
With over 200 courses available, prospective students, parents and teachers come to our website to find out what St Andrews has to offer.
The University of St Andrews design system and the accompanying new pattern library, that it supports, aims to build upon the success of the current digital pattern library (DPL).
Frequent users of the University website may have noticed a visual change to the accordion patterns. We have applied some much needed improvements to the accordion pattern in line with the design methodology of GOV.UK.…
We have launched version 1.12.0 of the digital pattern library. This release of the DPL features changes and new options for patterns that will be used on the redesigned research and news sections of the University…
We have launched version 1.11.0 of the digital pattern library. This release of the DPL features new patterns and changes that will be used on the redesigned research section of the University website. We have also…
We have launched version 1.9.0 of the digital pattern library. This release of the DPL features new patterns that will be used on the redesigned news and media centre section of the University website.
We have launched version 1.0.0 of the digital pattern library. This is the first fully stable release of the DPL.
This sprint we have added one new pattern and updated the documentation and examples for a number of others. The following is a summary of notable updates.