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4/4 The guide is FREE.
Download it, keep what works for your team, ignore the rest.
If you try it, we’d love to hear which part helped most.
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3/4 The guide looks at the usual DS work, understanding what you have, planning what’s next, documenting decisions and shows where AI can quietly support each step.

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2/4 Most teams sit between two extremes:
ignoring AI completely or chasing every new tool without a clear role in the system.

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AI DS Starter Stack

1/4 💸 FREE guide for Design System teams
We made AI DS Starter Stack, a short overview of how AI can actually help your Design System – without changing your whole stack.
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4/4 The goal is to provide simple, consistent and efficient digital services across sites like borger.dk and Virk, built on shared patterns instead of one-off solutions. How much do you feel design and design systems could or already have changed the quality of public services today in your country?

3/4 On top of that sit components: buttons, forms, tables, navigation, alerts, search, pagination and more tested, open, and ready to reuse.

2/4 DKFDS brings together foundations from accessibility and color to layout, typography, icons, patterns, and data visualization, plus a shared Figma library and code repo.

Denmark’s Det Fælles Design System (DKFDS)

1/4 Denmark’s Det Fælles Design System (DKFDS) standardizes public self-service experiences with tested, accessible components for citizen-facing services. designsystems.surf/design-syste...

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6/6 So, the question is how do you usually get started with a design system when a product or team begins to grow and what was your very first step?

5/6 As products scale, it’s easy to lose what made them feel whole.
A Design System helps protect that identity while teams move faster.

4/6 You don’t need to build everything at once. Start by:
Auditing what you already have
Documenting simple rules
Turning key pieces into shared components
Making it a team effort

3/6 With a Design System in place, it becomes a scaling engine:
Shared language
Faster, more consistent delivery
Easier onboarding
Freedom within clear boundaries
Teams ship faster together, not just in silos.

2/6 A UI kit keeps things similar. A Design System keeps them coherent.
It connects design, development, and documentation so teams move from debating pixels to aligning on patterns.

How does a Design System help to scale projects?

1/6 When products grow, small design decisions pile up into big design debt.
This article explains how a Design System turns that chaos into a shared, scalable structure.
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9/9 Maybe that is what the future of public design should look like: with as much care for people as for efficiency?

8/9 When a public service feels simple, reliable, and consistent, it builds something bigger than good UX. It builds trust. It’s inspiring to see how structured design thinking can make civic tech more inclusive and efficient at the same time.

7/9 Around the world, projects like GOV UK, The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS), The UAE Design System, and NYS Design System show what happens when design and code work together for the public good.

6/9 So, every user experience feels the same, whether you are booking a train ticket or checking a delay. And NS is not alone.

Tractie Design System for NS Enterprise References to fundamentals, UI components, and a library of the NS Enterprise design system named Tractie. Created to make design easier and smarter.

5/9 A great example is Tractie, the design system from Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS): designsystems.surf/design-syste.... It unites Web, Android, and Mendix components in one place, helping teams build faster and stay aligned.

4/9 That is why design systems in the public sector are so important. They make digital services clearer, fairer, and more human.

3/9 When those systems are inconsistent or hard to use, it becomes a barrier.

2/9 Think about it. Government and public services reach millions of people every day.

Public Sector Design Systems

1/9 We often talk about design systems in the context of big tech or global brands, but some of the most meaningful ones are built quietly inside public institutions.

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