Building with the Aura design system

Use these articles to understand Aura, adopt it in your projects, and build consistent product UI with shared foundations and primitives.

What is Aura

Learn how Aura’s AI-native foundations, primitives, and tooling support Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) and Flows custom apps.

Understand color, typography, spacing, effects, interaction states, heuristics, and accessibility tokens.

Browse Aura primitives by category, from data display and inputs to navigation and overlays.

Extend or override Aura style tokens in a consuming app when scoped overrides are appropriate.

See what the Aura team is building now and what is planned for upcoming releases.

Last modified on September 24, 2026

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