Principles

Our digital design principles reflect how we think about design. They provide a way for us to look at the work we create and how we create it: building the right thing; building the thing right.

  1. We design in context

  2. We design with purpose

  3. We design for everyone

  4. We design with honesty

  5. We design in the open

  6. We design iteratively

Help needed for "Principles"!

The following is missing from this set of principles:

Summary: Each design principle can have a brief summary, these could be a couple of lines or a detailed paragraph outlining how this principle is used or measured, e.g.

- principle: Strive to be universal
summary: Our aim is to be a resource that is helpful to everyone. We do this by strictly adhering to principles of progressive enhancement…

Tip! You may be able to find the missing information at the source URL:
http://web.archive.org/web/20181015112520/http://coop-design-manual.herokuapp.com:80/principles.html.

It would be great if you could contribute and update this set of principles with anything that's missing!

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