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Domain guidance

These sites within the Carbon community include guidance, assets, and resources for all of IBM’s digital experiences from product to website. Some guidance is accessible to IBMers only.

Product

The guidance and resources here are for IBM product teams building software applications and digital experiences with the Carbon Design System. This work is built on the foundation of Carbon and provides solutions for specific domains and use cases.

This content is accessible to IBMers only.

IBM.com

The guidance and resources here have been developed for IBM teams building digital experiences for the IBM.com site.

Brand

The journey to understand IBM brand guidance begins with the foundations in the Brand Center, then extends to the expression of brand as documented in the IBM Design Language (IDL) site. From there, go to the IBM Brand Systems for visual systems and guidance tailored to our hero brands, category brands, and offerings.

This content is accessible to IBMers only.

w3

The guidance and resources here have been developed for IBM teams building digital experiences with the w3 publisher. Carbon will be replacing w3DS as the designated design system for the CIO organization in late 2023.

Salesforce

Carbon for Salesforce provides front-end developers & engineers a collection of reusable LWC components to build websites and user interfaces. Adopting the library enables developers to use consistent markup, styles, and behavior in prototype and production work.

Conversational UX

The IBM Natural Conversation Framework is for anyone designing or building conversational agents. It provides design principles, interaction patterns, and working code for the basic mechanics of natural conversation.

This content is accessible to IBMers only.