Design systems
When building out interfaces make use of our atomic CSS libraries, shibori3 for marketing and purple3 for products. Our icon system malibu works with both and contains icon sets for both marketing and product.
Note, at this time Github repositories are private to Heroku employees.
Design tools
We've built Xray as a Mac utility and web service for sharing your Sketch documents with the entire company. Xray also syncs the Heroku UI Kit Sketch library, used for designing and mocking up interfaces.
- Sync local Sketch files and Sketch libraries with the native Mac app
- Present your mockups to anyone who has the link
- Every project can be viewed by a Salesforce employee
Design guidelines
Whenever designing experiences for our customers, keep our interface and brand guidelines in mind. Our brand guidelines deal with marketing concerns and our interface guidelines are for front-end properties.
Best practices and common patterns for designing interfaces
Design team
Our team designs holistic, consistent, intuitive, accessible experiences and interfaces that offer value to existing and new Heroku customers. We champion our users — we channel their needs, behaviours, and motivations and provide insight into how they use the products we design.
Misha @misha Brooklyn, NY
Matt @mattgraham Port Huron, MI
Ariana @ari Madrid, Spain
Brendan @brendan Columbus, OH
Charlie @charlie London, UK
Geordie @geordie Salem, MA
Douglas @updoug Cambridge, MA
Share your thoughts, ask questions and make requests in the #design channel in the Heroku workspace on Slack