🆚 GOV.UK Design System vs. Spectrum Web Components

Type

Design system
User interface framework

About

The GOV.UK Design System is an open-source design system that provides styles, components, and patterns to help UK government teams build consistent, user-centered digital services.

It includes reusable and accessible UI components for forms, navigation, and content, documented patterns for common user tasks, and design guidance for layout, typography, and color, with code examples released under an MIT license and regularly tested to meet WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards.

The Spectrum Web Components is an implementation of Spectrum, Adobe's design system.

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom
San Jose, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Design Systems › Rank #7
Design Systems › Rank #9
UI Frameworks › Rank #40
UI Frameworks › Rank #48

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

GOV.UK Design System technology is 1.9 times more popular than Spectrum Web Components.
Total websites

Market share

Design Systems
UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

GOV.UK Design System is more popular in the United Kingdom and Slovakia, while Spectrum Web Components is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
United Kingdom
United States
Slovakia
Germany
Japan
France
Poland
Australia
Canada
Austria

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

GOV.UK Design System is more popular among sites focused on government and military, business, and public information, while Spectrum Web Components is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, Internet services, and recreation and hobbies sites.
Government/Military
Business
Public Information
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Travel
Art/Culture/Heritage
Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#76
#10,981
#11,555
#12,772
#13,897
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Name
Rank
#12,786
#13,548
#14,974
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See also

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