Building Morningstar products with a design philosophy delivered in code.

The Morningstar Design System is a collection of brand, visual, UX, and technical standards built into a central library so that teams can quickly build high-quality, consistent experiences.

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New Feature
Introducing MDS Web Components

The MDS UI components you know and love, written in vanilla JavaScript, and now available for production use as custom elements with built-in support for interactions and behaviors.

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New UX Pattern
Responsive Data Tables

A new UX pattern provides details on the different ways we approach data table responsiveness, as well as guidance on choosing the approach best suited for your product’s content.

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Tech Talks
Building a Framework-Agnostic UI Library with Web Components

The Design System team hosts a Morningstar Tech Talk to share our journey building web components.

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What’s New

Here are some of the highlights of recent releases:

  • Released the third set of Web Components for production use.
  • Established a new MDS Planning kanban board in our JIRA project, providing our customers with a centralized place to suggest new features and browse and vote for features others have requested.

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What’s Next

In addition to ongoing support for adopting teams and continuing to extend and support existing capabilities, the MDS team is actively working on:

  • Continuing to expand and harden our growing library of MDS web components. Check out the component status page for more details.
  • Establishing and documenting our principles for adding animation to product experiences.
  • Providing responsive and touch-friendly variations of our UI components.
  • Exploring strategies for managing style dependencies within and across components.
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