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Design Standards

Design Standards encompasses the frameworks, guidelines, and best practices used in product, interface, and system design to ensure consistency, usability, and accessibility. Includes API design guidelines, naming and format conventions, accessibility conformance, deprecation policy, and governance practices.

Design Standards publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Accessibility, Design Standards, Design Systems, UX, and API Guidelines.

The Design Standards catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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22.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
AccessibilityDesign StandardsDesign SystemsUXAPI GuidelinesGovernance

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 22.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 2.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 1.2 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Design Standards Program

Rules, capabilities, vocabulary, and linked-data description for an organizational design standards program covering products, interfaces, and APIs.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Design Standards Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Design Standards Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Design Standards Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Design Standards Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Design Standards API Rules

0 rules ·

SPECTRAL

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Reference
Reference
 Reference
Reference

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: design-standards
name: Design Standards
description: Design Standards encompasses the frameworks, guidelines, and best practices used in product, interface, and system
  design to ensure consistency, usability, and accessibility. Includes API design guidelines, naming and format conventions,
  accessibility conformance, deprecation policy, and governance practices.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/design-standards.png
tags:
- Accessibility
- Design Standards
- Design Systems
- UX
- API Guidelines
- Governance
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/design-standards/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: design-standards:program
  name: Design Standards Program
  description: Rules, capabilities, vocabulary, and linked-data description for an organizational design standards program
    covering products, interfaces, and APIs.
  tags:
  - Standards
  - Governance
  properties:
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/design-standards/main/rules/design-standards-rules.yml
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/design-standards/main/capabilities/design-standards-capabilities.md
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/design-standards/main/vocabulary/design-standards-vocabulary.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/design-standards/main/json-ld/design-standards.jsonld
common:
- type: Reference
  url: https://opensource.zalando.com/restful-api-guidelines/
- type: Reference
  url: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/api-evangelist
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com