Design Systems

Design Systems is a New Delhi architectural, urban design and sustainable architecture consultancy established in 1988, and its website at design-systems.in takes the less common route of a fixed left-hand sidebar navigation beside a full-width content column, a layout choice that suits a firm with a genuinely deep body of project and team content to present.

The homepage hero is a large architectural render carousel, currently showing an STPI Gorakhpur competition entry, giving an immediate, specific sense of the firm's design language rather than a stock photo. Below it, a confident introduction states the firm's three decades of experience in plain black text on white, followed by a genuine client-logo carousel featuring names like Vedanta Aluminium and ACC, real social proof for an architecture practice.

The About Us page is unusually thorough for a firm of this type, with a detailed Principal's Brief for founder Rajiv Bajaj listing his full qualifications and memberships, followed by equally detailed profiles for two associate architects leading design and UX. A nine-person Our Team grid with individual headshots closes the page, giving the practice a real, credible, named face rather than an anonymous presence.

Typography is a clean, businesslike sans-serif, with generous line spacing that keeps the dense biographical content readable, and the palette stays deliberately restrained, black, white and grey, letting the architectural photography carry the visual interest. The contact page mirrors this restraint with a simple two-column Get In Touch panel beside a straightforward enquiry form, plus office hours clearly stated.

On mobile, the sidebar navigation collapses into a standard top menu, and the team grid, client logos and biography sections restack into a single column, preserving the firm's calm, credential-led presentation on a phone, though the long About Us page requires a fair amount of scrolling to reach the team section.