# How We Built Horizon with Design Driven Development

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development/386569
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**Created:** [October 23, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development/386569 "2025-10-23T20:04:54Z")
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### Author: ![jordan.vidrine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jordan.vidrine/32/515563_2.png) [@jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan.vidrine)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development/386569/1 "2025-10-23T20:04:54Z")

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It was extremely exciting when we decided that the design team would lead one of our biggest projects — creating a new theme, which we decided to call Horizon. The name reflects our hope that this theme expresses a more expansive vision for who can use Discourse and what Discourse communities can look like.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development](https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development)

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