Alza Design System
The Alza Design System (ADS) is not a collection of UI components. It is a foundational system that defines and generates design tokens, styles, and assets for all Alza projects.
A Single Source of Truth
As Alza expands across multiple web clients, mobile apps, and frameworks, maintaining design consistency becomes increasingly challenging. Design decisions made in Figma—such as changes to colors, spacing, or typography—can easily be forgotten, leading to inconsistencies across different products.
ADS solves this by acting as the single source of truth, ensuring that design updates are automatically propagated to all platforms through generated code.
More Than Just UI Components
Instead of providing a fixed set of UI components, ADS generates design artifacts that can be consumed by different technologies. This ensures that design updates only need to be made once and can then be regenerated across multiple platforms.
- CSS & Tailwind Themes: Styles are automatically generated to support modern web development workflows.
- Utility Classes: Standardized utilities ensure that projects use consistent spacing, typography, and colors.
- Kotlin Color Schemes: Mobile applications benefit from auto-generated color definitions in Kotlin.
- Icon Management: ADS also serves as the single source of truth for icons, ensuring all applications use the same icon set.
Extensible & Future-Proof
ADS is designed to be extensible, allowing for additional generators to be written as needed. Whether it’s support for new frameworks, different styling approaches, or custom integrations, the system is built to adapt and evolve with Alza’s needs.
Conclusion
The Alza Design System ensures that design and development stay in sync by defining a structured way to generate and distribute design decisions. Instead of manually updating styles, colors, or icons across different platforms, ADS enables a one-source, multi-output workflow—ensuring efficiency, scalability, and consistency across all Alza applications.