Key principles of the Pega Cosmos design system

Six principles guide the development and represent the values of the Pega Cosmos design system:

• Efficiency
• Ease of use
• Simple authoring
• Modularity
• Best practices
• Business outcomes

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Above all, the Cosmos design system aims to empower designers and developers to advocate for a higher level of UX design maturity in their organizations. Design maturity is a sequence of developmental stages that organizations pass through, characterized by the level of design thinking — or iterative process of generating solutions through exploring user needs and challenging assumptions.

When designers use a system like Cosmos for day-to-day design work, they have more opportunities to:

• Focus on creating the right experiences for their audience
• Conduct experiments and gather metrics about how their design is performing
• Invest in cross-functional relationships with engineers and other stakeholders
• Save time on creating surface-level designs and updates

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