Design Systems · Evaluation
IBM Carbon
Compliance Index score
60.7/100 · D
= flat since last week
Per-category breakdown
Each category is scored independently. The cohort average shows how this site compares to the 30-site cohort in each dimension.
Evaluation
IBM Carbon scores 60.7/D on the Designesy Compliance Index — 14 of 42 checks passed, 4 failed, 6 warned, 15 skipped. The cohort mean is 69.3/D across 30 scored sites. IBM Carbon sits 12% below the cohort mean.
Strongest category: Interaction at 100.0%. Weakest scored category: Tokens at 25.0%. The gap between best and worst is the finding — most systems are strong in one dimension and absent in another.
The engine detected 15 custom properties at :root — a modest token layer.
This evaluation is deterministic — no LLM, no human judgment, no survey. The same 42-check engine that scored IBM Carbon scores every site on the leaderboard. Re-score carbondesignsystem.com live to see if anything has changed since 2026-08-03.
Scored 2026-08-03 against contract v0.4.0 (42 checks, 14 weighted categories). Re-scored weekly via GitHub Action.
Compared to Design Systems peers
IBM Carbon ranks #13 of 14 in the Design Systems category.
Cohort context
This site
60.7/100
Cohort mean
69.3/100
Cohort median
70.0/100
Delta from mean
-8.6
Why this site is scored
Mature token system