About Protocol

Protocol is the design system for Mozilla.org. You could also call Protocol a Pattern Library, User Interface Library, Modular Design, Design Language or many other terms that essentially have the same meaning. Like Firefox's Photon, BBC's GEL, Shopify’s Polaris, we’ve chosen to coin a name for Mozilla.org’s design system: Protocol.

A design system like Protocol creates a common language and component library for design and outlines high level requirements for content. When design systems are effectively employed, the benefits are exponential:

• Improved User Experience: Scaled, consistent design patterns and content practices provide users with a familiar experience that allows for less time spent on re-learning interactions, finding pages that serve user needs, and abandoning pages that don’t.
• Efficiency: With a library of design components ready to employ and clear guidelines for creators, we spend more time on creation that serves our users and less time on “reinventing the wheel”.
• Clarity: With clearly documented guidelines and governance for design and content creation, we spend less time negotiating the guidelines to create clarity for ourselves and more time creating designs and content for that clearly serves our users.

Protocol was created by the Mozilla.org durable team in the spring of 2018, and was last updated on [DATE].

Please contact [Contact] if you have any questions or feedback about Protocol.