Design System Checklist

232-item open-source checklist for design language, foundations and components

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An open-source, tickable checklist for planning, building and growing a design system, by Arda Karacizmeli and Dmitry Belyaev. It has exactly 232 items in four categories: Design language (10 items — Brand, Guidelines), Foundations (26 — Color, Layout, Typography, Elevation, Motion, Iconography), Core components (168 across 29 components) and Maintenance (28 — Documentation, Local libraries, Team processes, Community support, Contribution). Each item carries a short explanation of why it matters, and the Core components section is per-component acceptance criteria — Button alone has 10 checks, Select 9, Text field 9, Modal 8, Toast 8. Localized into English, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish and Simplified Chinese.

For an agent

Reach for this as a review rubric, not a build guide: when a user says 'audit our Button' or 'what are we missing before we call this a design system', the 168 core-component checks give you concrete, defensible line items instead of vague advice. The full 232-item dataset is embedded as JSON in the page's __NEXT_DATA__ script tag, so you can parse it directly rather than scraping rendered HTML — the visible DOM is a hydrated shell and a plain text scrape returns only the nav. Note it stops at the design layer: nothing here about theming APIs, CI, versioning or token pipelines, so pair it with a tokens or release-process reference.

Why it is here. The most concrete answer to 'what does done look like' for a design system — 232 specific, arguable items instead of principles.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: Unknown
Pricing: Free, Open source
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Not applicable
Distribution: Web app / online tool, GitHub repository
Platform: Web
Content type: Prose / writing
Agent readiness: Readable open source, Structured documentation
Accessibility: Not applicable
Maturity: Stable
GitHub stars: 490

Components it ships

29 total

Notable for

232 items across 4 categories
168 per-component acceptance criteria
29 core components covered
5 languages
~490 GitHub stars

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://designsystemchecklist.com (raw HTML pulled with curl; the full checklist tree parsed out of the embedded __NEXT_DATA__ JSON and counted programmatically), https://github.com/ardakaracizmeli/design-system-checklist, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ardakaracizmeli/design-system-checklist/master/README.md

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