EdSurge Styleguide is designed to provide simplicity and consistency across EdSurge's websites and applications.
The Foundational Styleguide is a collection of the global pieces that provide the baseline for our brand's look and feel that are built upon by the Patterns Library and implementation. It includes the definition (in CSS & Design) of our colors, types, forms, buttons, and general look feel and layout of how we present our digital media.
By canonicalizing our common visual elements into a reusable theme, we create a corpus of design that is reusable across systems, applications, teams, and designers. It helps contribute to a unified look and feel of our digital properties enhancing our brand and visual style. Developing this 'global theme' will decrease overall decision and implementation costs for designers and developers in producing new digital assets and materials by not having to re-invent the wheel and leveraging the product of previous investment (of time and resources). Additionally, this leads to more contiguous integrations that are the same across the 'website' and applications requiring less code review, questions, QA, etc.
Developing a styleguide is hard. Developing a styleguide with the scope of the full universe of the organization's needs while within a subcontext of _one_ of the applications makes it even more difficult. The purpose of a styleguide is to serve the broader team and organization, and for it to be resilient to the changing needs of the individual applications.
Everything in here can be overridden, re-classed, etc.
We seek to develop this corpus of material in a separate application for a few primary reasons
Of course, there are a few downsides to having a separate application