Parlance is a design-to-code contract platform designed to ensure consistency and quality across your entire design system. It meticulously audits design files, code, live products, and native applications against your established UI contracts, glossaries, design tokens, and critical accessibility standards. This comprehensive approach prevents design and code from drifting apart, maintaining a unified and high-quality user experience.
- UI Contracts: Define the precise structure, properties, and states for every component, ensuring all surfaces adhere to these definitions.
- Drift Detection: Instantly identify discrepancies between design, code, live, and native implementations. Issues are tagged by severity, clearly showing the expected token versus the actual value, making fixes straightforward.
- Glossaries & Tokens: Establish a single, shared vocabulary for design elements like color, spacing, typography, and motion, directly sourced from your design tokens.
- Severity Triage: Prioritize issues from critical to minor, ensuring that release-blocking problems are addressed first, while less urgent matters can be scheduled for later.
- Accessibility Standards: Audits are conducted against essential standards including WCAG 2.2, WAI-ARIA 1.2, HTML, CSS, Section 508, and EN 301 549, providing concrete evidence for each check.
- Multi-Platform Support: Define tokens once and translate them into the specific declarations needed for various frameworks across web, iOS, and Android. Parlance supports over 18 framework targets.
- Seamless Integration: Parlance offers extensions for Figma, VS Code, Xcode, and browser integration, fitting directly into your existing workflow.
- Automated Audits: Continuously checks for issues like color contrast, missing alt text, incorrect spacing tokens, and more, providing a solid foundation for quality assurance.
- Evidence Capture: Every audit generates detailed evidence, including severity, location, and expected vs. actual values, crucial for designers, engineers, and auditors.
Parlance helps maintain design integrity and accessibility, ensuring your product remains consistent and user-friendly across all platforms.