Call for Participation in Design System Documentation Community Group

The Design System Documentation Community Group has been launched:

The management of design systems —standards, reusable components, and documentation that guide the development of digital products— is too often burdensome because institutional knowledge is fragmented and locked into proprietary formats. This hurts design system teams, the people who use design systems, and even the people who make tools for design systems. These problems have existed for well over a decade. They’re only becoming more important with agent-driven workflows.

The mission of this group is to lower the burden of design system management by developing an open format for structuring design system documentation. Important facets of openness include: compatibility with established standards like DTCG and CEM, portability, and providing value to both humans and agents.

This group will develop Specifications.

In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. Please note, however, that W3C Membership is not required to join a Community Group.

This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2026-07-29 by PJ Onori. The following people supported its creation: Cole Peters, PJ Onori, Mykhaylo Ryechkin, Cody Clark and Fred McHale. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

The group must now choose a chair. Read more about how to get started in a new group and good practice for running a group.

We invite you to share news of this new group on social media and other channels.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please email us at site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team