What is a Design System
The Energy Saving Trust Design System is a library of reusable components, patterns, and examples that embrace modern product design practices. Additionally, a collection of in-house standards, guidelines, and principles for creating inclusive, user-friendly, and effective products and services.
Get startedDesign guidelines
Read about the best practice guidance for creating inclusive user-centric products. Check for accessibility, colour guidelines and design principles.
Examples
Use our components and patterns as building blocks for creating websites. They specify the buttons, forms, and page headers that should be used.
Accessibility
Learn how to build inclusive products that can be used by as many people as possible.
Community
The Energy Saving Trust Design System is for everyone. To ensure our efforts remain impactful and relevant to our audiences, we rely on the support of a strong internal community that brings together the latest research, design methods, and development approaches from across Energy Saving Trust.
If you would like to get involved and help us improve the Design System, please reach out on Teams or email us on design@est.org.uk.
Design System working group
The Design System working group is a multidisciplinary team of representatives from across the Energy Saving Trust.
The group ensures that all components and patterns published in the Design System are of high quality and meet user needs.
If you've got a question, idea or suggestion, you can contact the team.