Design Systems in Finland

A curated list of Finnish organizations (or companies with large branches in Finland) that have or are actively working on a design system. Know a resource that isn't listed below? Feel free to create a new pull request, or open an issue.

What is a Design System?

There isn’t a standard definition of “design system” within our community, and people use the term in different ways. For the purposes of this list, a “design system” is a set of interconnected patterns and shared practices that are coherently organized to achieve the purpose of digital products.

Organizations

Name	Type	URL	Notes
Aalto	Public	https://www.aalto.fi/visual-library
ABB	Private	N/A
Edita Publishing	Private	N/A
Elisa	Public	http://stylebook.elisa.fi
F-Secure	Private	N/A
Fortum	Private	N/A	Fortum Elemental System, WIP
City of Helsinki	Public	http://hds.hel.fi	In alpha. Open source
Helsinki University	Public	https://static.helsinki.fi/ds/	Alpha
Kesko	Private	N/A	WIP
Lähitapiola	Public	https://www.duetds.com
Nordea	Private	N/A
Nordhealth	Public	https://nordhealth.design	WIP
Nosto Solutions	Private	N/A	WIP
OP Ryhmä	Private	N/A
Oura	Private	N/A
Outotec	Private	N/A
Posti	Private	N/A	WIP
RELEX	Private	N/A	Fragments, WIP
Smartly	Private	N/A
Stora Enso	Public	https://designsystem.storaenso.com/
Suomi.fi	Public	https://designsystem.suomi.fi/fi/	Open Source
Telia	Public	https://teliads.netlify.app/	WIP
Turva	Public	https://www.duetds.com/?theme=turva
Umbra	Private	N/A	For Web, iOS and AR (Hololens)
University of Helsinki	Public	https://universityofhelsinki.github.io/Styleguide/	Open Source
Vaisala	Private	N/A
Veikkaus	Private	http://design.veikkaus.fi	URL is shown in some blog posts, but doesn’t seem to be public(?)
Verkkokauppa	Private	N/A
Yhdistysavain	Private	N/A	WIP for 2.0 release
Zalando	Public	https://fabric-design.github.io/styleguide/	Open Source

Tools

Name	Type	URL	Made by	Notes
SC5 Style Guide Generator	Open Source	http://styleguide.sc5.io	SC5	While this is a style guide generator, it could be used as a part of a bigger system
Gridlover	Open Source	https://www.gridlover.net	@tuomasj, @sakamies	Establish a typographic system with modular scale & vertical rhythm.
Vaadin	Open Source + Paid plan	https://vaadin.com/	Vaadin	Development platform for front-end and back-end devs
Vue Design System	Open Source	https://vueds.com	@ariel	An open source tool for building Design Systems with Vue.js