About the NYC Digital Design System
What is the NYC Digital Design System?
The NYC Digital Design System is a set of rules and reusable parts for making digital products. It’s the official design system of NYC government.
Who should use the design system?
The design system is exclusively for public-facing digital experiences that are operated by NYC government. That includes all public-facing websites and web applications on city-owned domains such as nyc.gov and cityofnewyork.us.
The design system is not for:
NYC government experiences that are not public-facing (such as intranets)
Any digital experience not operated by NYC government
iOS and Android apps
Social media
Digital marketing
Who’s behind the design system
NYC Digital Service built the design system. We’re a team of design, content, development, and digital strategy professionals. We make products that serve New Yorkers. The design system is the result of extensive user testing, data analysis, and design iteration.
NYC Digital Service is:
- Freddie Blicher
- Aamina Ganser
- Hilary Glazer
- Gina Kim
- Vic Lam
- Michael Mausler
- Kesone Phimmasone
- Ben Sack
- Will Zhang
Acknowledgments
We didn’t build the design system alone. We’re grateful to all of the New Yorkers who participated in our user tests, and to the city staff who helped along the way:
Raquel Acobes, Shriya Agarwal, Aaron Baker, Jasmin Batista, Esteban Bustamante, Richard Borashan, Cameron Burrows, Heather Burns, Tanessa Cabe, Caroline Carney, Sourabh Chakraborty, Leah Chang, Ruby Choi, Sharon Chu, Allison Churchill, Catherine Coy, Richard Cumberbatch, Marcelo Davalos, Natalie Dean, Dineil Diaz, Jack Ding, Gregory Dvorkin, Michael Estabrook, Zachary Feder, Alexander Foard, Matt Fraser, Chenda Fruchter, Tomas Garita, Tanner Gers, Jenna Gogan, John Goia, Trotsky Gonzalez, Kristen Grennan, Lacy Grippo, Prince Gupta, Chandra Hira, Tiffany Huan, Tom Hughes, Michael Hutchison, Arthur Jacobs, Emily Johnson, John Kelly, Yakov Kozlenko, Wenyu Kuang, Kiwook Kwon, Young Kwon, Bermet Kydykova, Sara Lambert, Tin Lau, Ian Lefkowitz, Yosef Lehrman, Alexander Levine, Kenneth Lo, Chris Long, Jennifer MacDonald, Jennifer MacGregor, Audrey Madison, Joseph Malvasio, Tony Mangan, Dominka Markowska-Desvallons, Chris Martinez, Victor Martinez, Dominic Mauro, Leah McWilliams, Emily Medina, Amanda Miller Amankona, Stella Milnes, Kelly Moan, Girma Moges, Janene E. Molfetta, Angela Moreira Chavez, Joe Morrisoe, Md Taherul Mowla, Kirsten Myhr, Suzanne Ng, Aruzhan Nuraly, Chris O'Brien, Larisa Ostrishko, Anthony Pagano, James Pagano, Angelique Pantoja, Dmitriy Plotkin, Mark Polyak, Jasmine Quindala, Ashanie Raheem, Shameela Ramprasad, Stephanie Raphael, Lyndsey-Marie Richardson, Rebekah Rose, Alexander Rubinstein, Jaylene Rubio, Douglas Salathe, Daniel Sallitt, Ioannis Samonas, Yas Sanchez, Tom Segarra, Chantal Sentaus, Darnell Sessoms, Vidhya Shanmugam, Megha Sharma, Gregory Shlyuger, Unnati Shukla, Awwab Siddiqui, Nathan Storey, Caitlyn Strack, Jacqueline Strawbridge, Visham Subrath, Richard Suweidan, Gail Tang, Sophia Tareen, Jason Thompson, Kevin Timoney, June Tomura, Laura Tsang, Karra Tuluenga, Leigh Turner, Jack Whitney, Daniel Willenberg, Andre Williams, Philip Wu, Sarina Xie, Patrick Yao, Carmen Yepes, Deana Yu, Estella Yu, Becky Yurek, Jennifer Zeitlin, and Julia Zhu