release update

Announcing the public launch of the Visa Product Design System!

Explore updates that help streamline workflows, foster collaboration, and ensure consistency.

Apr 23, 2025

Overview

We’re thrilled to announce the public launch of the Visa Product Design System (VPDS)—your ultimate resource for creating intuitive and accessible experiences. This public release marks a major milestone, introducing comprehensive improvements designed to streamline your workflow and foster seamless collaboration.


VPDS offers a robust suite of resources, including design guidelines, code libraries, and best practices, all aimed at delivering intuitive and inclusive experiences for everyone, everywhere. The public launch makes these resources more accessible, enabling users—including our partners—to work faster and smarter while maintaining consistency across projects.

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What’s fresh and improved

Not only is VPDS now publicly available, but we’ve also made significant updates to the VPDS site to create a better experience for our current internal users and new external users.

Updated left navigation

Our new left-navigation layout elevates more sections for improved wayfinding, making it easier to find what you need. This includes new, tailored sections such as “About VPDS” and “What’s new,” as well as personalized sections for “Designing” and “Developing.”

This new approach is rooted in VPDS user research and provides a streamlined and intuitive experience, similar to industry standards, ensuring you can quickly locate and access the resources you need.

Integrated code libraries

Our previous site linked to separate sites to access Angular, Flutter, React, and Styles (CSS) examples. Now, you can access examples for any framework in the same location using our new code library drop-downs that allow you to switch between libraries. On the new site, we’ve provided the latest versions of the coded examples. For older versions, we will still maintain separate sites and provide access to internal users.

Additionally, we have migrated documentation from these separate development sites to our new public page, including changelogs, to ensure essential information is centralized and easily accessible in one convenient location.

New educational materials

New get started guides for designers and developers mean you can quickly leverage VPDS to its full potential. This includes Design kits for Figma and individual get started guides for Angular, Flutter, React, and Styles (CSS).

Within our new About VPDS section, we’ve also added a What is VPDS? page and FAQs to make finding answers easier.

Streamlined terminology

Foundations (including typography, color, spacing, and more) have been renamed to Base elements, aligning with our development terminology. We’ve also renamed and consolidated documentation for Design tokens, previously known as Theming, streamlining the way we facilitate standardization and customization.

This updated terminology fosters design-development parity by creating unified hubs for both Base elements and Design tokens, ensuring all the essential elements needed to drive consistency across experiences are easily accessible.

Reorganized resources and assets

Icons and illustrations now live under Components, while Information architecture guidelines are grouped under Content, ensuring everything is right where you need it.

Foundational documentation such as Design principles, Inclusive design, and Accessibility guidance have also been moved to “About VPDS,” elevating important guidance, elevating important principles and standards to ensure we all use a shared design language.

Ready to get started?

Unlock the full potential of VPDS today. Visit the VPDS homepage to explore these updates, access resources, and experience how we’re transforming the way teams create. We also welcome our partners and those outside of Visa to learn about us and how VPDS can enhance your projects.

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