Welcome to Fly

Fly is our design system: the principles, processes, and styles that make up our app and brand's design.

Why do we have a design system?

Creating and documenting a design system allows our product and marketing teams to establish and implement a consistent design direction. The guidelines here allow use to scale, manage design debt, build in accessibility, and iterate quickly. We can make quicker and more informed decisions, which leads to a better product. We can use our most precious resource, time, to do more design exploration.

What is the purpose of this documentation?

  1. 1.
    Provide guidelines to build a more cohesive app experience
  2. 2.
    Understand when and how to explore/deviate from our current patterns
  3. 3.
    Force us to articulate our opinions so we can make guided decisions
  4. 4.
    Scale/amplify each individual's work by making it accessible for others on the team
  5. 5.
    Store resources for new team members
  6. 6.
    Audit our current system - view it holistically - so we can make improvements
  7. 7.
    Facilitate visual design changes by organizing the components and styles that will need to change