Design system management without all the management
Knapsack unites your design, code, and content in a central source of truth for your entire product team
A design system platform for your entire product team
Build a design system you can use—fast
Building and maintaining a design system can feel like an impossible challenge. Knapsack gives teams a jump start by providing the core infrastructure and platform needed to get to value quickly, with best practices baked into the platform.
Support for new W3C token specification
Endpoints for testing and sharing
Customizable storefront site with hosting
Built-in theme management
Git-backed version control
Work locally or in the cloud
Unite design and engineering in one design system
Make it easy for your product team to work together. Knapsack is built for collaboration between engineers, designers, product managers, and UX writers, with the tools and features they need to do their best work built-in.
Manage and version tokens, components, and docs
Automated updates to tokens and components in docs
Third-party embeds for real-time views from Figma, Adobe XD, and more
Playground for exploring patterns and themes
Pre-built content blocks for displaying text, patterns, variations, and more
Make team-wide adoption and collaboration easy
Design systems work best when your whole team is on board. Knapsack speeds up adoption by unlocking the power of community contribution and streamlining system distribution.
Source feedback and input from design system consumers
Assemble new patterns from your existing components
Contribute pull requests and commits from Knapsack
Automated token transformation for target technologies
Continuous integration workflows with CI tools and Git repo
Automated package updates and distribution for testing or production
Why your voice and tone guide belongs in your design system
Design systems should be your organization's central source of truth for all brand elements—including voice and tone.
What can you do with Knapsack?
Designers
Document usage guidelines with coded, contextual assets
Browse existing assets and patterns
Guide engineers on what’s being reused, modified, or built from scratch
Connect and share design assets and examples of work in use
Quickly create coded prototypes using existing system elements to test new Ideas and validate what’s possible
Developers
Reduce tooling and platform maintenance effort and overhead
Automate token style transformation (CSS, SCSS, Swift, XML, etc.)
Start working quickly with flexible deployment and CI/CD setup
Stay up-to-date with Git-backed versioning and contribution
Collaborate easily with dynamic development playground and real time feedback as you build
Product managers
Reference existing patterns and solutions to streamline execution
Build prototypes and identify needs without using developer resources
Manage and monitor status of system elements
Standardize operations across multiple products and technologies
Create, test, and share production-quality, coded examples without needing developers
UX writers
Standardize content used throughout site and documentation
Centralize style and content guides for entire product team
Increase consistency across products and platforms
What can you do with Knapsack?
Designers
Document usage guidelines with coded, contextual assets
Browse existing assets and patterns
Guide engineers on what’s being reused, modified, or built from scratch
Connect and share design assets and examples of work in use
Quickly create coded prototypes using existing system elements to test new Ideas and validate what’s possible
Developers
Reduce tooling and platform maintenance effort and overhead
Automate token style transformation (CSS, SCSS, Swift, XML, etc.)
Start working quickly with flexible deployment and CI/CD setup
Stay up-to-date with Git-backed versioning and contribution
Collaborate easily with dynamic development playground and real time feedback as you build
Product managers
Reference existing patterns and solutions to streamline execution
Build prototypes and identify needs without using developer resources
Manage and monitor status of system elements
Standardize operations across multiple products and technologies
Create, test, and share production-quality, coded examples without needing developers
UX writers
Standardize content used throughout site and documentation
Centralize style and content guides for entire product team
Increase consistency across products and platforms
What our users say
The flexibility of Knapsack makes it an ideal tool for us to integrate into existing build processes to ensure design, product, and development are all on the same page with the components we have, how to integrate them, and to ensure the stability of those components as they change.
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