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Beginner's guide for designers

Welcome to the designer documentation for Allium Design System! This guide will help you get started with designing great customer experiences with Allium.

  1. Set up your workspace
  2. Understand your design foundations
  3. Get support

Set up your workspace

  1. Access the TELUS Digital workspace in Figma using your TELUS account. To access and design in Figma, you must have Editor access.

    • For TELUS Digital designers and content practitioners, contact your team's Design Lead to be invited to your respective team space and projects
    • For partners outside of TELUS Digital, you must provide your own Figma license. You'll need to duplicate the Allium design kit available on the public TELUS Digital profile in Figma community to install them locally

    Learn more about how we use Figma in TELUS Digital.

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You can view publicly shared design files without logging in, but you'll need a TELUS account to edit and collaborate with the design files, such as exploring layers, inspecting properties, and adding comments.

  1. Access Allium design kit

    Once you have access to your team space, you'll be able to access the Allium design kit. You can pull in logos, sizes, icons, and components using the Assets panel on the left sidebar. And you can apply typography and colour styles using the Properties panel on the right sidebar.

    Allium design kit:

    The Allium UI Sticker Sheet provides a consolidated view of available components with guidance on how to use them and examples in-situation.

  2. Use TELUS' primary font Helvetica Now Text SA

    TELUS' primary font is Helvetica Now Text SA with a selection of rounded glyphs and alternative characters. Helvetica Now Text SA will be provided in the TELUS Digital workspace in Figma. Please reach out to your Design Lead or support person if you need access to the Helvetica Now Text SA font files, you may need to provide your own license to the font files for local use.

    Agency and design partners must arrange to purchase a desktop license for local use.

    Learn more about TELUS typography in Brand Resources Centre or contact brand@telus.com for additional inquiries.

  3. Start designing!

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Learn more information and detailed instructions on using libraries in Figma's guide to libraries.

Understand your design foundations

Get to know the design foundations and use them to create intuitive, accessible, and beautiful products.

  1. Principles
  2. Accessibility
  3. Usability
  4. Content
  5. Imagery

Learn more about designing for TELUS with the Brand Resource Centre

Support

  • Join the #ds-allium-support Slack channel for general discussions, announcements, and questions related to Allium
  • Join the #figma-support Slack channel for Figma support, knowledge sharing, collaboration, training, tips, and tricks