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Karan Design System

Motivation

Struggles and Insights from Personal Development

When starting out with personal development projects—often for learning and catching up with new technologies—it’s easy to get bogged down in front-end design tasks. Even something as universal as a footer can demand a surprising amount of attention: layout, visual balance, color choices, and more. This can divert valuable time from the core objective of mastering new technology to focusing on design details instead.

Example: Distractions from Tech Focus

  • Revisiting design for each new page
  • Adjusting layout for consistency after features are coded
  • Spending excessive time polishing UI instead of building core logic

What This Design System Aims to Solve

These experiences underscored the need for a setup where you can focus on core functionality, without being derailed by front-end design complexities. By standardizing colors and typography and offering ready-made, essential components—such as footers, headers, and cards—you can start with a reasonably cohesive design and avoid the grind of reinventing UI elements every time.

Time Savings

Minimize the effort of building UI from scratch and dedicate more attention to the core logic and functionality.

Consistent Design

A common set of colors, typography, and layouts ensures a unified look with minimal extra effort.

Learning Accessibility and Basic Design Principles

This is not just about “saving time.” It’s also about embedding knowledge of accessibility, color contrast, and typography into the process. By refining a small set of essential components, we hope to create a system where devs naturally internalize these core UI principles.

  • Accessibility Incorporate basic guidelines for color contrast and keyboard interactions to ensure a UI that works for everyone.

  • Typography & Color Provide a standardized font size, line-height, and color palette. With these defaults, any component will look balanced and accessible.

Why Support Both Lit and React?

Our choice to include Lit (Web Components) and React stems from the following motivations:

  • Versatility: Users can pick the technology that best suits their project or learning goals.
  • High Component Reusability: Reduces dependency on specific frameworks, maximizing potential for reuse.
  • Multifaceted Skill Building: Learn React’s robust ecosystem while also delving into standard Web Components, all with a consistent design foundation.

Looking Ahead

As we continue to build new components, we aim to maintain a flexible but unified UI. By gradually expanding the repertoire, our hope is to foster a culture where “design systems” become second nature even in individual projects.

Objective: Balancing Creative Freedom with Efficiency

  • No more design bottlenecks, allowing you to concentrate on tech catch-up.
  • Maintain consistent project-wide visuals through well-defined components.

For more details on available components and usage examples, check out the next page. You’ll find UI elements to streamline and enhance your projects.