Design System Style Guides for Colleges & Universities
Standardize and scale your institution’s digital identity across departments, campuses, and programs. With UI Vault, colleges and universities can document and share their design systems in a centralized, interactive, and accessible format—ensuring every team designs and develops with consistency and clarity.
A brand platform to meet your needs
We are on a mission to create a more beautiful world, one brand at a time. We work with customers from each use case to meet your needs.
The Problem
Most academic institutions operate with outdated brand manuals, PDFs, or scattered style guides that vary by department. The result? Inconsistent digital experiences, duplicated effort, and unclear standards across web, print, and mobile platforms.
How Brandy Helps
UI Vault provides a modern solution for higher education design teams: a Figma-integrated design system documentation platform that scales. Whether you’re managing brand design, department sites, marketing campaigns, or student-facing platforms, UI Vault gives your institution a single source of truth for colors, typography, components, tokens, and UI standards. Share it publicly, privately, or per department—with role-based access and versioning.
Benefits for Brand Teams
Explore the benefits of using Brandy tailored to your use case.
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Unify Design Across Departments
Maintain a consistent look and feel across admissions, athletics, alumni, and academic sites—with one centralized, living system everyone can access.
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Figma-Integrated, Always Up-to-Date
Sync components, typography, and colors directly from Figma—keeping documentation current without manual updates or PDFs.
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Serve Students, Faculty & Vendors
Whether it’s student developers, freelance designers, or internal staff—anyone can explore the design system with a simple, intuitive interface. No Figma training required.
Simplifying Design System Documentation
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is UI Vault?
UI Vault is a modern, cloud-based platform for creating, syncing, documenting, and sharing design system style guides—purpose-built for teams working in Figma.
It allows you to pull in components, text styles, colors, and tokens directly from your Figma libraries and organize them into beautiful, structured, collaborative style guides. With support for multi-brand systems, markdown blocks, role-based permissions, live collaboration, and white-labeling, UI Vault replaces static PDFs and siloed files with a living, scalable source of truth.
Whether you’re a solo designer, an agency, or an enterprise team, UI Vault helps you turn your design system into something discoverable, centralized, and actionable—by anyone, anywhere.
What is design system documentation and design system software?
Design system documentation is the structured, centralized source of truth that explains how a design system works, how to use it, and why it exists. Its purpose is to create consistency across teams, streamline collaboration between design and development, and scale your visual language across products and platforms.
In UI Vault, design system documentation is live, interactive, and connected to your Figma source of truth. Modern teams use design system software—like UI Vault—to automate, organize, and share this documentation in a way that’s always up to date, beautifully presented, and easy to access.
Who is Brandy for?
UI Vault is built for teams who care about design consistency, systematization, and scale.
Whether you’re building a design system from scratch or managing a mature multi-brand operation, UI Vault is ideal for:
- Designers who want to sync Figma components and styles into a structured, visually rich guide without manual effort.
- Developers who need clear, up-to-date documentation of design tokens, specs, and components—ready for implementation.
- Product managers who oversee multiple teams or initiatives and want centralized, branded, accessible documentation.
- Agencies managing style guides across multiple clients or projects with white-label needs and custom branding.
- Enterprises operating at scale with complex permissions, multiple brands, and internal governance standards.
UI Vault is for anyone tired of static PDFs, broken links, and outdated documentation—and ready for a living design system platform that evolves with your product.
How does billing work?
All of our plans are billed annually or monthly. Each plan has limits on brand spaces, assets, and storage, and the features differ on each tier. If you reach the limit on your plan, you will need to upgrade to make sure that your account can accommodate your growth. Plans are designed to be affordable for small business and budding agencies, and your support is greatly appreciated to fuel our product roadmap.
How is UI Vault different from its sister product Brandy?
UI Vault is designed specifically for Figma-based design system documentation, while Brandy is focused on brand asset management.
UI Vault pulls in Figma components, text styles, and color tokens and organizes them into interactive, editable, and shareable style guides. It’s purpose-built for documenting design systems, tokens, and component libraries.
Brandy is for storing, tagging, and managing logos, fonts, brand videos, marketing materials, and other creative assets—great for marketers, designers, and agencies managing files outside Figma.
In short: Brandy is your vault of brand assets, while UI Vault is your living design system linked to Figma.
What does UI Vault sync from Figma?
UI Vault connects directly to your Figma files and libraries, allowing you to sync and document alongside:
- Components (with variants, nested layers, and naming structure)
- Text styles (including font family, size, weight, line height, letter spacing, and responsive behavior)
- Color styles and tokens (organized by name and usage context)
- Design tokens (soon: spacing, radii, shadows, etc.)
- Logo components (auto-detected and displayed with download options)
- Frame previews for hero sections, illustrations, UI patterns, and more
The sync is automatic, fast, and keeps your documentation always up to date with what’s in Figma—no copy/pasting, no duplicating.
Can I use UI Vault without Figma?
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Is UI Vault free?
Yes, UI Vault offers a generous Free plan. For teams that need multi-guide support, white-labeling, permissions, analytics, custom domains, and more—Pro, Team, and Enterprise plans are available.
Can enterprises use UI Vault?
Absolutely. UI Vault is built to scale—and enterprises are at the heart of that vision. Whether you’re managing design at the scale of a global brand or coordinating cross-functional teams across products, UI Vault gives enterprise teams the structure, control, and polish they require.
Can agencies use UI Vault?
Absolutely. UI Vault is perfectly suited for agencies managing multiple brands, clients, or design systems. UI Vault gives agencies the power to deliver professional, scalable, and visually polished documentation, all while reinforcing the agency’s value and creative leadership.
Can product managers and teams use UI Vault?
Yes—UI Vault is built to support product managers and cross-functional product teams at every stage of the product lifecycle. For product teams launching campaigns, onboarding new contributors, or coordinating with engineering, UI Vault provides clarity, structure, and alignment—without the chaos of scattered documentation.
Can Dribbble or freelance designers use UI Vault?
Yes—UI Vault is an excellent tool for freelancers, independent designers, and creators showcasing or delivering their design systems. It’s not just about delivering files—it’s about delivering systems, clarity, and long-term value. UI Vault helps freelancers look like agencies and present their work like seasoned professionals.