Design system - Guidelines

[SaxonF]

Part of #53322

What problem does this address?

One of the goals of the admin redesign project is to create a more consistent/seamless WordPress experience as users venture in and out of different plugins. A lot of plugin authors currently bypass core UI's (often for good reason) which creates this feeling of fragmentation.

What is your proposed solution?

We need to incentivise and educate plugin authors and core contributors around how to utilise the "system" in the best way possible. This includes guidelines around colour, page layout, components, patterns, accessibility etc.

As we start to flesh out the design system in more detail and execute on its various parts we need to look at iterating on the existing design handbook

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[Ren2049]

Are there plans to overhaul the design of the "Make WordPress" pages as a whole? because no matter how good or informational the documentation is, the presentation of it will keep most people from reading it. Something that looks more like the news section on wp.org would would work a lot better.

The're quite a few good books like Refactoring UI and documentation about design systems like the Tailwind CSS/UI pages and I'd take as much inspiration from those as possible.