Design Standards (design-standards)

Design Standards encompasses the frameworks, guidelines, and best practices used in product, interface, and system design to ensure consistency, usability, and accessibility. Includes API design guidelines, naming and format conventions, accessibility conformance, deprecation policy, and governance practices.

References:

• Zalando RESTful API Guidelines
• WCAG 2.1

Scope

• Type: Index
• Position: Consuming
• Access: 3rd-Party

Tags

• Design Standards
• Design Systems
• UX
• Accessibility
• API Guidelines
• Governance

Contents

• rules/design-standards-rules.yml — Standards governance rules.
• capabilities/design-standards-capabilities.md — Capabilities a standards program delivers.
• vocabulary/design-standards-vocabulary.json — Controlled vocabulary.
• json-ld/design-standards.jsonld — Linked-data description.

Maintainers

FN: Kin Lane

Email: kin@apievangelist.com

Timestamps

• Created: 2025-01-01
• Modified: 2026-04-28