The Carbon ecosystem
Within IBM, every team that is building a digital experience is consuming Carbon assets and guidance but Carbon is more than one website.
Overview
At its core, Carbon has universal assets–elements, components, patterns, and code–and guidance for how to design and build with them. These assets are considered universal or fundamental in nature, which means they can be used as a base for the widest variety of situations, and extended or adapted for the specific business use cases.
Beyond this core is a distributed ecosystem of sites that support and serve the design and development communities within IBM and, where open source content is available, the external community as well.
The following sites within the Carbon community include guidance, assets, and resources for all of IBM’s digital experiences from product to website. Note that some guidance is accessible to IBMers only.
A diagram of the greater Carbon ecosystem.
Community assets
Component index
These components are developed and maintained by members of the IBM Carbon community. They may change over time, and they may be incomplete or experimental. For support, please contact the maintainers listed on each page.
Some of this content is accessible to IBMers only.
Patterns
Patterns are best practice solutions for how a user achieves a goal. These community patterns are developed and maintained by members of the Carbon community. For support, contact the maintainers listed on each page.
Some of this content 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.
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.
