What Is Inspire Design System
Inspire Design System provides clear principles, guidelines and resources to create and maintain consistent, high-quality and predictable user interfaces. It is created and maintained by/for designers and developers. The design system is naturally evolving and growing together with the products, tools and technologies.
Our Goal
Our goal is to set a standard to the design and development of Quadient user interfaces. This should reduce design inconsistencies and streamline communication between design and development teams.
Sections
Guidelines

Offers UX guidance for specific aspects of applications and design including the visual language.
Patterns
Explains how to correctly combine multiple components to create effective and consistent experience.
Components
Includes information about usage of UI components that are reusable parts for building user interfaces.
Tools and Resources
Lists design resources and tools to work with. You can learn about the Inspire Design System and how to contribute.
Glossary
Presents a comprehensive dictionary of user experience terms and definitions for you to better understand them.
Design Principles
When making design decisions, keep these core principles in mind.
We create software the purpose of which is to enhance the productivity of our customers. We want them to think that our product is the best tool for the job.
User workflows must be as smooth as possible.
Keywords:
- productivity and efficiency of use
- good defaults
- UI response
- minimize tedious or repeated tasks
- accessibility
We offer our customers tools to design consistent communication across multiple channels. We want to provide them with a set of consistent interfaces that comply with the industry standards.
The same things must be done in the same way.
Keywords:
- shared UI patterns and components
- well-known icons
- consistent terminology
- consistent processes
- recognition rather than recall
We design software to help our customers do their work rather than stand in their way. Users of our software must always feel in control.
The user always knows what is going on.
Keywords:
- system feedback
- clear affordances
- direct manipulation
- clear user focus
- error recognition and recovery
We keep in mind that our software must look simple and elegant. We sometimes even try to impress our users with visual sugar.
We believe that people are more efficient with beautifully designed tools.
Keywords:
- simplicity
- typography
- colors
- animations
Contribute
If you have an idea, you need a new component or an update of an existing one, feel free to ask a question via MS Teams in the channel: Bobwai and Components UX. Contributions are welcome as well as feedback, suggestions for improvements of code or design, tips for tools etc.
- Report a bug:
In YouTrack: Bobwai Gallery Type: Bug - Request a feature:
In YouTrack: Bobwai Gallery Type: Enhancement
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