Design Contracts

Make product intent portable.

A Design Contract records what a product is trying to achieve and the rules that should remain true as people and agents design and build it.

Product goals

Users, jobs, business goals, constraints and measurable success criteria.

Design language

Brand meaning, semantic tokens, typography, component rules and content behaviour.

Interaction & responsive rules

States, flows, permissions, viewport behaviour and important edge cases.

Accessibility

Required keyboard, focus, contrast, zoom, reduced-motion and assistive-technology behaviour.

Rationale

The evidence or product need behind material decisions, including uncertainty where it exists.

Provenance

Source, licence, AI involvement, transformation and dependency lineage where practical.