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Concepts

Every term parlance uses, in plain English. These are the same definitions the app shows in its ? hints, so a concept means exactly one thing everywhere.

Workspace

Your top-level container — a personal space or a shared organisation. Design systems, projects and members all live inside a workspace.

Organisation

A shared workspace for a team, with members and roles. (A personal workspace is just for you.)

Design system

The shared definition — glossaries, colour roles and contracts — that one or more projects use. Your source of truth for how things should look and behave.

Project

A project that uses a design system — a website, app or platform. Several projects can share one design system.

Contract

A UI contract — the agreed specification for a component (a button, a form field), described clause by clause.

Clause

One rule inside a contract — a single property (padding, font-size, colour…) and the value it must have, optionally tied to an accessibility standard.

Glossary

A named set of design values of one kind (spacing, colour, typography…). Contracts source their clause values from glossaries.

Glossary value

One named value in a glossary — e.g. “space-sm = 8px”. The reusable token a clause points at.

Design token

A named, reusable design value — a colour, a spacing step, a radius. Stored as glossary values.

Atomic level

How complex a component is — atom → molecule → organism → template → page. A button is an atom; a form field is a molecule.

Theme

Maps semantic colour roles (primary, error…) to light- and dark-mode shades, with live WCAG contrast checks.

Colour role

A semantic colour slot (primary, error…) that resolves to a different shade in light vs dark mode.

Audit

A check of an observed thing — a design, code, a live page or a native screen — against a contract, producing a score and a list of issues.

Issue

A single mismatch found by an audit: what was expected vs what was observed, with a severity.

Conformance

How well each project matches its design system across design, live and accessibility — rolled up per project, with a worst-case headline.

Standard

An accessibility rule from an external spec (WCAG 2.2, WAI-ARIA, Section 508, EN 301 549) that a clause or issue can reference.

WCAG level

The conformance level — A (basic), AA (the common legal target) or AAA (strictest).

API key

A per-user secret that lets the extensions (Figma, browser, VS Code, native…) connect to your parlance data through the API.