Douglas brand guidelines
Douglas documents its brand purpose, retail operations, and digital design system across multiple e-commerce platforms and supplier touchpoints.
Homepage of the Douglas Brand Portal featuring hero photography, scope overview, and entry cards.
Our Brand Model page detailing Douglas brand purpose, core values, points of difference, and brand book download link.
Brand Promotion menu under the For Brands & Suppliers tab highlighting promotion packages and Douglas Live guidelines.
In-Store section displaying a placeholder illustration with a message indicating no content is available yet.
New vs. Old Shop touchpoint page listing country assignments and asset instructions across platforms.
For Writers page within the Digital Design System section showing onboarding roles and foundations navigation.
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I like how Douglas tackles the messy reality of brand management right in public. Their portal acknowledges that different markets operate on different web shop architectures, explicitly mapping out asset rules between new and old systems. The structure extends beyond typical UI tokens into supplier promotion guidelines and live streaming formats. While some areas like in-store display placeholder screens, the design system cleanly separates foundational elements from role-based onboarding paths for designers, writers, and developers.
At a glance
- Sections
- Douglas Brand · In-Store · Digital Touchpoints · Digital Design System · For Brands & Suppliers · About · Legal
- Downloads
- Tone
- Direct, structured, and operational, tailored toward cross-functional teams and external suppliers.
What I noticed
- The digital touchpoints section differentiates asset requirements between new and old shop systems by country, mapping Italy to the old shop and Austria, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, and The Netherlands to the new shop.123
- The portal organizes digital design system onboarding by discipline, providing dedicated subsections for designers, writers, and developers alongside Bitbucket repository links.4
- The For Brands & Suppliers section includes promotion packaging and guidance for Douglas Live, covering streaming formats and the LIVEBUY app.56789
- The In-Store section contains no documentation and displays an illustrated placeholder message indicating no content is present yet.10
Numbers refer to the screenshots above.
What I could not see
- Could not inspect the full brand book contents as it links to an external digital asset management URL.
- The in-store guidelines page is empty, preventing review of retail environment documentation.
- Could not review token values or code snippets inside the design system foundations pages.
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Reviewed on 18 October 2026. Request a correction · I built this