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Top Design systems repositories on GitHub

Tokens, component libraries, and tooling for cohesive UI.

Ranked by stars across 549 repositories tagged design-system. Refreshed daily.

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    donnemartin/system-design-primer★ 373,209 · ⑂ 58,743

    Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.

    • programming
    • development
    • design
    • design-system
    • system
    • design-patterns
  2. 2
    VoltAgent/awesome-design-md★ 119,597 · ⑂ 13,341

    A collection of DESIGN.md files analysis by popular brand design systems. Drop one into your project and let coding agents generate a matching UI.

    • awesome-list
    • design-md
    • design-system
    • google-stitch
    • landing-page
    • design-tokens
  3. 3
    mui/material-ui★ 99,130 · ⑂ 32,507

    Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.

    • react-components
    • react
    • material-design
    • material-ui
    • design-system
  4. 4
    saadeghi/daisyui★ 42,539 · ⑂ 1,702

    🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼  The most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library

    • tailwind-css
    • ui-library
    • design-system
    • ui-pattern
    • ui-framework
    • css-components
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    chakra-ui/chakra-ui★ 40,676 · ⑂ 3,647

    Chakra UI is a component system for building SaaS products with speed ⚡️

    • chakra-ui
    • react
    • uikit
    • react-components
    • accessible
    • a11y
  7. 6
    onlook-dev/onlook★ 26,855 · ⑂ 2,115

    The Developer Tool for Designers • An Open-Source AI-First Design tool • Visually build, style, and edit your code with AI • World's best, top-most agent recommended #1 Developer tool for Designers to design with Real Code.

    • react
    • typescript
    • tailwindcss
    • nextjs
    • design
    • frontend
  8. 7
    pedronauck/docz★ 23,570 · ⑂ 1,398

    ✍ It has never been so easy to document your things!

    • docs
    • documentation
    • js
    • react
    • zero-configuration
    • ui
  9. 8
    gztchan/awesome-design★ 17,601 · ⑂ 1,237

    🌟 Curated design resources from all over the world.

    • design
    • ui
    • ux
    • creative
    • adobe
    • sketch
  10. 9
    stenciljs/core★ 13,134 · ⑂ 861

    A toolchain for building scalable, enterprise-ready component systems on top of TypeScript and Web Component standards. Stencil components can be distributed natively to React, Angular, Vue, (+ more) and traditional web applications from a single, framework-agnostic codebase.

    • typescript
    • stencil
    • stenciljs
    • ionic
    • ssr
    • ssg
  11. 10
    primer/css★ 13,028 · ⑂ 1,288

    Primer is GitHub's design system. This is the CSS implementation

    • sass
    • ui-components
    • framework
    • design-system
    • design-systems
    • primer
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    markmead/hyperui★ 12,252 · ⑂ 521

    Free Tailwind CSS v4 components for your next project, designed to enhance your web development with the latest features and styles 🚀

    • tailwind
    • accessibility
    • components
    • css
    • design-system
    • frontend
  14. 12
    jdan/98.css★ 11,512 · ⑂ 380

    A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs

    • css
    • design-system
    • windows98
    • guy-fieri
  15. 13
    material-components/material-web★ 11,315 · ⑂ 1,145

    Material Design Web Components

    • component-
    • design-system
    • lit
    • lit-element
    • lit-html
    • material
  16. 14
    mui/base-ui★ 11,069 · ⑂ 563

    Unstyled UI components for building accessible web apps and design systems. From the creators of Radix, Floating UI, and Material UI.

    • accessibility
    • design-system
    • react
    • react-components
    • wai-aria
    • base-ui
  17. 15
    akveo/react-native-ui-kitten★ 10,667 · ⑂ 962

    React Native UI library built on the Eva Design System: 30+ themeable, accessible components for iOS, Android and web. TypeScript, React 19 / RN 0.81, Eva and Material themes with runtime light/dark switching, on-demand style compilation.

    • react
    • react-native
    • ui-kit
    • design-system
    • react-native-web
    • typescript
  18. 16
    DouyinFE/semi-design★ 10,400 · ⑂ 851

    🚀A modern, comprehensive, flexible design system and React UI library, AI-friendly built-in.🎨Provide 3000+ Design Tokens, easy to build your design system. Make Semi Design to Any Design.🧑🏻‍💻 Design to Code in one click

    • react
    • ui-libary
    • design-system
    • dark-mode
    • design2code
    • code2design
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    carbon-design-system/carbon★ 9,521 · ⑂ 2,286

    A design system built by IBM

    • scss
    • design-system
    • react
    • javascript
    • hacktoberfest
  21. 18
    themesberg/flowbite★ 9,368 · ⑂ 868

    Open-source UI component library and front-end development framework based on Tailwind CSS

    • css
    • html
    • tailwindcss
    • components
    • design-system
    • ui-components
  22. 19
    nuejs/nue★ 8,813 · ⑂ 259

    Fastest way to build modern websites

    • javascript
    • javascript-framework
    • markdown-flavour
    • design
    • design-system
    • nuejs
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