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Component Library

The component library ensures that a design is consistent and that a design language is easily extensible by creating a tool kit of reusable base elements. Component libraries can be built at the scale of a single product, to maintain consistency within a family of products, or to set standards across entire brands.

The audience of a component library might be designers, engineers, or developers, and the format of the component library will change depending on whether the components are physical or digital. Industrial designers in a company manufacturing kitchen appliances might share a library of common components to ensure that all of their power switches are the same, while a software company might have a component library to make sure that their error handling is consistent across multiple apps and websites. As all elements are gathered into a single place, component libraries are useful for creating assets, and they can even be translated into coded elements to be used and reused across software-development projects.