When eBay set out to document their design system, they didn’t just want a reference guide—they wanted to create an experience where teams could find inspiration and excitement in their work.
Welcome to the Design Systems Report (formerly known as How We Document), our annual report that dives into the state of design systems. We’re into the fourth year of our report, and once again we’ve gathered the data on your teams, how you structure your design systems, the challenges you face and what makes a well adopted, highly trusted design system. Just under 300 of you participated in the survey,…
Designers, let’s talk about an uncomfortable truth. For many of us, the joy of our craft lies in creating work that is not just functional but exceptional. We love unearthing hidden user insights through research, challenging assumptions, and asking the kinds of questions that lead to elegant, transformative solutions. To us, this feels like the very essence of design: solving the problem in the best way possible. But here’s the…
This case study shows you Google’s feature adoption strategy. Learn how to maximize new product releases with these 5 key principles.
When I start any UX project, typically, there is very little confidence in the successful outcome of my UX initiatives. In fact, there is quite a lot of reluctance and hesitation, especially from teams that have been burnt by empty promises and poor delivery in the past.
Yes, Photoshop lost. Maybe you’re new around here, but Photoshop was THE design tool everyone used to design websites and apps. Everyone. But it lost out to Sketch and Figma and now hardly anyone designs these things in Photoshop. Of course some still do but most don’t. I still use Photoshop for certain things but never web design or apps. It’s dead to me there.
We’re giving every UI element a complete refresh, focused on better aesthetics, improved usability, and a more polished design system.
Yes, you are reading that correctly: This is indeed a guide to styling counters with CSS. Some of you are cheering, “Finally!”, but I understand that the vast majority of you are thinking, “Um, it’s just styling lists.” If you are part of the second group, I get it. Before learning and writing more and more about counters, I thought the same thing. Now I am part of the first…
I’m not fully committed to this model yet: I’m still on the lookout for more agents and inference-time scaling later this year. But Deep Research, Claude 3.7, Claude Code, Grok 3, and GPT-4.5 have turned out largely in line with these expectations[1], and this is my current baseline prediction.
Explore and copy a wide range of HTML symbols to enhance your designs, improve readability, and add unique characters to your projects
