Design & User Experience

Our Design System

Our Design System serves as the cornerstone for a systematic and scalable design approach across all domains. It promises exceptional UX/CX, powered by efficient design libraries and high-quality assets.

The Thales Design System is at the core of our strategy, ensuring consistent user and customer journeys across all touchpoints—blending intuitive interfaces with engineered products and cohesive services.

Holistic Design approach © Thales

This interconnected strategy enhances user and customer journeys across all touchpoints—blending intuitive interfaces with thoughtfully engineered products & cohesive services.

Holistic Design approach

Our Design System connects innovation and engineering across the entire lifecycle, enabling a unified approach that seamlessly integrates CX, UX, Human Factors, UI, Services and Industrial Design.

By bridging these disciplines, it ensures consistency and scalability while maintaining flexibility to meet diverse user needs, aesthetic standards, and functional requirements. The system fosters collaboration, empowering teams to design with a shared vision and leverage reusable components, assets, and guidelines. 

This interconnected strategy powered by our Design System not only improves team efficiency but also supports our mission to deliver solutions that are user-centered, visually coherent, and operationally robust.

Todays challenges

Design System building blocks

  1. Fusion

    Fusion is the enabler of end-to-end cohesive experiences. It combines our various products, solutions and services into compelling journeys.

  2. Quantum

    Quantum is our foundation for digital solutions, enabling the design and development of best-in-class digital solutions & user interfaces.

  3. Matter(s)

    Matter(s) focuses on hardware products. By capitalizing on the finest industrial design, it brings consistency across all our equipment.

Design System, Driving Impacts

Our Design System promotes consistency across all Thales products and services, empowering our teams to deliver integrated, connected, and seamless experiences. 

By scaling exceptional design across all solutions and systems, we leverage continuous integration and industry-leading standards in ergonomics, ecodesign, and accessibility—enhancing usability, performance, and trust in Thales solutions.

This approach accelerates delivery, as the Design System streamlines implementation and boosts design velocity through the reuse of proven components and patterns.

Finally, the Design System supports the full product lifecycle and new ways of working, enabling rapid prototyping and continuous refinement. It helps us bring solutions to life faster, close the feedback loop early with customers, and users to drive true operational impacts.

Overview of Quantum Design System © Thales

This consistency creates a familiar environment that guides users intuitively, fostering solution adoption and the confidence to act.

Resources

Discover our publications

Transform with Design: Creating New Innovation Capabilities with Design Thinking, by Jochen Schweitzer, Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini, and Sebastian Fixson, Rotman-UTP Publishing, 2023

Transform with Design

Valuable resource for practitioners interested in Design Thinking. By offering real-world examples especially design-led innovation strategies at Thales.

The Design Tokens book: from the theory to practical use of Design Tokens by Ismaïl Hamila and Adrien Gibrat, Frontguys Publishing, 2023

Design Tokens

This book is entirely dedicated to Design Tokens. By compiling definitions and a detailed case study on how Thales has implemented Design Tokens into Quantum Design System.

Human and Cybersecurity: How Organisations Can Enhance Resilience Through Human Factors, by Amanda Widdowson, Publishing 2025

Human Factors & Cyber

Cyber security incidents are often attributed to “human error”. This book delivers an approach to mitigating the risk of the human in cyber security.