Digital pattern library

Help with the DPL

The digital communications team works with colleagues across the University to:

• consult on projects that use the DPL
• train developers on the use of existing patterns
• create new patterns.

If you would like to use the digital pattern library for your own web project the digital communications team can help.

Please contact the digital communications team by emailing itservicedesk@st-andrews.ac.uk.

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• Kick-off meeting

  All developers (including external agencies or partners) who wish to use the DPL to build a product must first organise a kick-off meeting with the digital communications team. You should set up this meeting as soon as possible near the start of your project (within the appraise or define stages).

  At this meeting, you will agree on the rules, responsibilities and sign-off gateways with the digital communications team. These include:

  • information architecture (for web pages)
  • workflows (for web applications)
  • adherence to digital standards, including user-centred design, content management, URL policy, house style, and corporate identity
  • training.

  At this meeting, you will provide clear written commitment that no new product using the DPL will go live without the explicit, written sign-off by the digital communications team.

• Developing new patterns

  To ensure design integrity and consistency of experience for our website users you must agree to the following:

  • New patterns must be created only by developers working directly alongside the digital communications team.
  • No patterns or elements (such as colours) in the DPL may be edited without first liaising with the digital communications team.
  • CSS or JavaScript must not be used to overrule DPL elements, patterns, fonts, etc.
  • Developers using the DPL must not fork the version controlled repository.

• Going live

  Before going live to a production environment with a new website or application, the digital communications team will carry out a final quality assurance process.

  Once the digital communications team has given explicit and written sign-off the website or web application may be launched, subject to other University deployment guidelines.

Current version

Build number

v1.23.2

Build date and time

Friday 5 June 2020
2.21pm

What's new?

Change log

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Resources

• Digital standards
• GitHub repository