# An Introduction to Raven Design System Raven Design System, better known as RDS, is Carleton University’s design system, is a living digital organism uniting campus wide teams around a common visual language. Storybook helps you build UI components in isolation from your app's business logic, data, and context. That makes it easy to develop hard-to-reach states. Save these UI states as **stories** to revisit during development, testing, or QA. ## Getting Started with RDS Browse example stories now by navigating to them in the sidebar. View their code in the `stories` directory to learn how they work. We recommend building UIs with a [**component-driven**](https://componentdriven.org) process starting with atomic components and ending with pages.