Design System Guidelines
Design System Guidelines define the rules and constraints for using the NayaOne Design System.
They are the primary reference for designing, building, and reviewing UI changes, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and maintainability across all NayaOne applications and modules.
Use these guidelines when:
- designing new UI
- implementing or refactoring components
- reviewing UI changes in code or design reviews
Mission
Section titled “Mission”Provide a consistent and accessible UI foundation that reduces duplication, prevents ad-hoc solutions, and enables teams to build and evolve NayaOne interfaces with confidence.
Vision
Section titled “Vision”A design system that allows NayaOne products to scale without UI fragmentation, where similar problems are solved in the same way across applications, teams, and tenants.
Values
Section titled “Values”- Consistency: prefer shared components and patterns over custom, one-off solutions.
- Accessibility by default: accessibility requirements are applied from the start and are not deferred or optional.
- Clarity over complexity: solutions should be easy to understand, implement, and review.
- Maintainability: UI decisions should support long-term evolution, not short-term convenience.
- Shared ownership: designers, engineers, and QA are jointly responsible for the quality of the UI.
Who is this for?
Section titled “Who is this for?”These guidelines apply to everyone involved in UI decisions:
- Designers — to select patterns, components, and foundations that already exist.
- Engineers — to implement UI consistently using shared tokens and components.
- Product managers — to assess UI changes and trade-offs.
- QA engineers — to validate consistency, accessibility, and expected behavior.
These guidelines do not replace:
- product requirements
- business logic
- feature-specific UX decisions
Design Principles
Section titled “Design Principles”Use the following principles to guide UI decisions and to evaluate changes to the design system:
- Consistency: solve the same UI problems in the same way across modules and applications.
- Accessibility: ensure all UI is usable with keyboards, assistive technologies, and different abilities.
- Performance: avoid unnecessary complexity that negatively impacts rendering, loading, or interaction.
- Maintainability: favor solutions that are easy to update, extend, or deprecate.
- Responsiveness: ensure UI works across screen sizes, input methods, and devices without special cases.