Kaizen Design System
Kaizen is Culture Amp's public design system. It accelerates Culture Amp's designers and engineers as they collaborate on creating world-class products. Visit cultureamp.design to learn more.
This repository is the source of truth for Culture Amp's design system documentation and hosts packages such as Kaizen Component Library, which are used across Culture Amp's products. It is structured as a multi-package repository, with a number of independently versioned projects sharing common tools, workflows and vision.
This document serves to orient you within the repository — to get you set up and acquainted, and then send you off in the right direction. For more information on any specific package, please refer to its README.
Quick links
Designers
Issues
You can explore or create Issues to track ideas, enhancements, or bugs. Use issues to track:
- Changes to design documentation
- Missing documentation
To learn more, see the designer section of the Contributing guidelines.
Editing design documentation
You can edit Kaizen Site documentation using GitHub's interface.
To learn more, see the designer section of the Contributing guidelines.
Getting started
Setup
Set up access to private Culture Amp packages on your laptop. You will need to update ~.npmrc with a Github token linked to your account. Refer to the instructions here.
Installation
To begin developing the design system locally, run the following from the repository root:
yarn install
We use Storybook to provide a local development environment for React components. All Kaizen Design System components have accompanying stories in Storybook.
To run Storybook locally, run the following from the repository root:
yarn storybook
(Having trouble running Storybook? Try running yarn reset, which includes yarn clean and yarn install --force!)
Branch previews
While the main site is located at https://cultureamp.design, all branches in this repository are automatically deployed to a public URL at https://dev.cultureamp.design/(branch-name). This deployment is a Storybook build for that branch.
For example, pushing the branch louis/more-glitter would make its documentation and Storybook build available at dev.cultureamp.design/louis/more-glitter.
Package scripts
It's dangerous to go alone! Take these:
| Command | Summary |
|---|---|
yarn storybook |
Develop components locally using Storybook |
STORIES=path/to/package yarn storybook |
Develop just one package at a time using Storybook (builds faster!) |
yarn commit |
Use commitizen to help you write your conventional commits |
yarn compile |
Run all typechecks |
yarn lint |
Run all linters |
yarn lint:fix |
Run all linters, fixing violations |
yarn plop |
Add a new component/subcomponent |
yarn playwright: |
Start storybook and run all Playwright tests |
yarn playwright:debug |
Start storybook and run all Playwright tests in debug mode |
yarn test |
Run all tests (using Jest) |
yarn reset |
Reinstall all dependencies |
Bugs and discussions
Please open a new GitHub Issue to report bugs or suggest changes.
Learn more
Culture Amp employees can reach out to the Design Systems crew on Slack.