What's New

This is where you'll find a rundown of the latest Design System additions and developments.

Please contact the Design System team if there are any questions!

October 2024

Added Badges and Tags as Reusable Designs
Added a new team member to Our Team! (Welcome, Josh!)
New script tag for our Web Components

May 2024

Added Banners as a Reusable Design

November 2023

Implemented improvements to the website header and navigation:
- Site search
- New utility navigation with links for commonly used resources: color table, Google templates, Figma Toolkit and CodePen.
Shared 3 updated Google Slide templates with improved contrast for viewing in different environments

October 2023

Added new Reusable Designs for inputs: Checkbox, Input fields, Radio button and Select

March 2023

Updated Google Site Guidelines
Created a Google Site template using the U-M Library Design System

February 2023

After a lot of writing, editing, designing, and building — the new documentation site is live!

This is the 3rd major redesign of our documentation site since we started the Design System in 2017. Our older sites were built around our design language and components. We collaborated with the library's Communication and Marketing department, expanded our scope, and built out a much more robust site rooted in an updated set of foundations.

New features of this site

Site sections with landing pages: Getting Started, Foundations, Visual Elements, Content, Reusable Designs, and About
Look and feel essentials in Visual Elements with connections to our Figma Design Library
CodePen code samples embedded on Reusable Designs pages
Paths guiding different audiences using the Design System through the site in Getting Started
Extensive Content guidance to support writing for the library across contexts