Design principles
Jutro design principles are at the heart of how we build experiences at Guidewire. They reflect our design philosophy and provide an evaluative lens for design and implementation decisions. If you have a role in authoring or authorizing any form of design at Guidewire, these principles should support your project.
Principles
Trustworthy
Great systems are built on the trust of their users.
Any system that involves human interaction requires a foundation built on trust. We believe that in a design system, trust manifests itself as consistency, reliability, and transparency in the form of governance. That means explaining how and why we made decisions in the system and backing them up with our industry experience.
Agnostic
Adaptable to future needs.
Creating technology dependencies to achieve specific UI styles can fundamentally limit where the UI can go. We believe a design system should be technology agnostic, portable, and able to be implemented on a variety of tech stacks across multiple devices.
Resilient
Backed by research, built on best practices.
We believe that design systems should be easy to use, but flexible enough to scale with your solution. Jutro is more than just a component library. It's a set of best practices, interactive examples, and the research to back it all up.
Living
Great systems are always growing and changing to meet needs.
Needs change over time—technology, markets, customer needs, each of these change; and in a digital world they change rapidly. Jutro, which means "tomorrow" in Polish, is a forward-looking design system that embraces change. We're committed to evolving our design principles, and the technology that supports them, to address dynamic forces in the P&C space.
Our principles in action
Balanced
Consistency and flexibility, all in one system.
Configurable design systems are more consistent, maintainable, and allow for more contribution but can become too rigid and create bottlenecks. Conversely, while customization provides more opportunities to innovate, it leads to autonomous designs and duplication in the system. Jutro is the first design system of its kind to serve both needs at the same time, so a balanced approach is critical to our success.
Modular
Design systems, not pages.
Modular design is all about reusing a piece of functionality across your system to resolve multiple issues with the same solution. Over time, it greatly increases the usability of your platform, because feedback comes at scale, vs. as a one-off solution.
Instinctive
Freedom to focus on the bigger picture.
Instinctive design systems integrate seamlessly within established workflows. They provide structure and meaning in the form of standards and documentation so that designers and developers can quickly apply their creativity to solving challenging problems.
Collaborative
Diverse perspectives are the key to true insight.
Good product design is a collaborative effort. In software, code is our final product, so the better the designers and developers understand each other, the better the final product will be. A good design system isn't just a collection of styles and components; it's a language that brings us together.
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