How to contribute
Anyone can help improve the DWP Design System by suggesting a change, sharing insights or proposing a new component or pattern.
If you use the Design System
If you use something from the DWP Design System, let us know so that we can keep learning and improving. You can email the Design System team with questions, comments or suggestions.
Hypotheses and the design system
The DWP Design System grows through evidence. Before something becomes a standard it needs to show it works, tested with real users in real contexts. That applies to components, patterns and guidance alike.
Hypothesis-driven design is how that evidence gets built. A hypothesis turns an observation into something testable. Testing it creates a record of what you saw, what you tried, and what you found. That record is what the design system needs from contributors. Not a finished design, but a tested idea with the evidence behind it.
Suggest a new pattern
If you have an idea for a new pattern or component, email the Design System team. Tell us:
- why you would find it useful
- if you have seen a similar thing elsewhere
- what user need you think it could meet
We review every idea and use your suggestions to prioritise our work.
Get support
Need help implementing this in a prototype or production build? Get support from the Design System team.
Give feedback
We depend on insights from real projects to update and improve the design system. If you use something we made, tell us how it went.
Could we improve this page?
Send questions, comments or suggestions to the DWP Design System team.