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- Design systemdesigma, a free Figma alternative in Rustdesigma is a free, open-source design tool written in Rust. Its repository is barely two weeks old and already has a thirteenth alpha, and it opens Figma and Pencil files.
- Design systemTry DSUI right nowA signature pad, hold to confirm, an elastic slider and generative UI, among others. See dsui for yourself, with its themes, blocks, MCP server and skill.
- Design systemFigma auto layout now behaves like CSSAuto layout, text wrap, spacing and opacity now follow the way CSS works, and code layers and Specs arrive on the canvas. Here is what design system teams should check.
- Design systemRadix's dialog parts get 60 million weekly installsA look at the basic-parts layer that runs quietly under design systems, through the Radix Primitives 1.6.7 release and two weekly download figures.
- Design systemWhat is leaving in Storybook v11 alphaStorybook's 11.0 alpha has shipped five times, and what stands out in the notes is removal, not new features. Here is what a design system team should check.
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