CERN Design System
A unified design system for one of the world’s most complex scientific organizations.
The challenge was to bring consistency to a large digital ecosystem without losing the distinct character of CERN. The system creates a shared visual and interaction language across websites, applications, content, and internal products—giving teams a flexible foundation they can actually use.
Dozens of teams, hundreds of sites and internal tools, each solving the same interface problems on their own. The result looked like many organizations rather than one.
Make complexity feel coherent.
A shared visual and interaction language that teams across CERN can build on: consistent where it matters, flexible where it needs to be, and documented so it stays that way.