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We’re here to support you in using and contributing to the design system. Whether you need access, guidance, or expert advice, our team is ready to help. Send us an email at digital@ucalgary.ca and let us know how we can support.

Access and onboarding

New to the design system? We’ll walk you through everything you need to know and get you set up with access to our design and code assets. Start strong with a guided introduction.

Consultation and adoption

Not sure if the design system is the right fit for your platform or product? We can help evaluate how it integrates—or explore how we can enhance your digital experience with best practices in design and usability.

Collaboration and community

We’re a big organization, we know there are many talented digital contributors throughout our network. If you work in the digital space and want to contribute, provide feedback, or simply connect with like-minded professionals, we’d love to hear from you.

Feature requests and recommendations

Have an idea to improve the design system? Let us know! Your input helps us evolve and stay relevant to the needs of our users.

Guidelines and documentation

Looking for clarity? Our design library has all the guidance you need to apply our standards effectively. Get in touch to gain full access. If anything isn't clear, connect with the team, we're always happy to help.

Brand or usability review

Do you have a digital product that you'd like to optimize. Want fresh set of eyes? We offer expert reviews to ensure your platform aligns with brand standards and delivers an optimal user experience.

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TLDR: Talk to us

Building great digital experiences takes teamwork! Whether you need guidance, feedback, or just a place to start, we’re here to support you every step of the way. Let’s create something amazing together.

email us: digital@ucalgary.ca

Helpful info

The UCDS is available to any designer, developer, team or vendor that is producing a digital touchpoint that serves our core audiences. It is not intended to be adopted by research groups when representing their own academic content, rather it is intended to be used for products that are communicating at the institutional level and form key touchpoints in core journeys.

For example, systems such as the UCalgary web system, applications portals, CRMs and other tools used for marketing communications.

The Digital Experience Team, in the Office of Communications and Community Engagement, is responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling the UCalgary Design System. Digital Experience is a product team comprised of digital product designers, front-end developers, and user experience analysts.

We know there is digital talent throughout our University. If you would like to contribute or provide feedback to the design system, get in touch via digital@ucalgary.ca, we'd love to talk all things digital with you. 

The UCDS in its current releases is targeted towards web and webform experiences, it is not currently built to support experiences such as mobile apps, digital signage or data visualization experiences however our design foundations still apply across these typs of platforms.

To get started on the adoption journey, reach out to us via digital@ucalgary.ca and tell us about your project or platform. Every system, project or team has different needs. We're passionate about ensuring all our audiences experience first class digital touchpoints from the University, so we are flexible and fluid in the level of onboarding and support we can offer.

The design system is intended to supply everything you need to create a digital product or design a user interface. If you're looking for brand guidelines, assets, downloads, and more, visit the UCalgary Brand site.

We live to collaborate - talk to us anytime at digital@ucalgary.ca. 

The design system is governed via the UCalgary digital designs standards. It is the central teams job to ensure that the design system is compliant with the University's brand and accessibility standards, whilst it is the responsibility of the product owner of a system to ensure that it is following our design and brand standards as closely as possible. 

Across 2025 there are a number of key milestones

  • Alpha 1.0 - March 2025
  • Alpha 2.0 - May 2025
  • Beta 1.0 - July 2025
  • General Availability - September 2025

You can check our UCDS roadmap to learn more about each release and key milestones.

If you are looking for resources related to the UCalgary web system (UCWS), visit the UCWS knowledgbase and support site.