Welcome to the UCalgary Design System
Empowering teams to create consistent, accessible, and user-centered experiences—efficiently and at scale. Seamless, unified digital experiences starts here.
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Unmistakably UCalgary
Foundations and tokens
Fueling consistency, efficiency and creative innovation. Make designing faster and clearer. With our foundations and tokens, your digital experiences live and breath UCalgary.
Simple, efficient, effective
Component library
Empowering teams with flexible, pre-built, brand-aligned and accessible UI components. Our components save you time, so you can focus on the fun parts of elevating every user interaction.
Delivering impact
Design principles
Rooted in community, driven by entrepenurial spirt and bold ideas, our principles guide the how and why behind every design choice. Ensuring our work is driving the University's mission.
Useful info
Who is the UCDS for?
The UCDS is available to any designer, developer, team or vendor that is producing a digital touchpoint that serves our core audiences. Learn more about UCDS.
UCDS Roadmap
Guided by our commitment to continuous improvement our roadmap sets our direction and key milestones.
How do I get access?
Our assets are available for designers and developers, get in touch for an onboarding session and we'll get you set up.
UCDS Vision
Shape, elevate, and transform UCalgary’s digital ecosystem to drive positive change, creating impactful experiences that engage and empower our community. Learn more about our design principles.
Start designing today – access the system now.
If you're curious about how the UCalgary Design System could work for you, have feedback, or just need access so you can get started. Email us - let’s create something amazing together.
News and Updates
Alpha 3 Release Notes
The third alpha release of the UCalgary Design System (UCDS) is now live and introduces a new set of components focused on navigation, interaction, and flexible layout support. These additions continue to enhance consistency, accessibility, and ease of use across UCalgary’s digital properties.
Alpha 2 Release Notes
The second alpha release of the UCalgary Design System (UCDS) is now live and includes a new set of foundational components designed to support consistency, usability, and accessibility across UCalgary’s digital ecosystem.
Building the foundations for tomorrow: UCalgary launches it’s first unified design system
The UCalgary Design System (UCDS) sets a new standard for seamless, consistent, and accessible digital experiences across all university platforms. Read below to learn more.
Alpha 1 Release Notes
Alpha 1, released on March 31, 2025, marks the first release of the UCalgary Design System! This release focused on establishing visual foundations and infrastructure for the design system and launching the public facing design system website.