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Project Roadmap

Upcoming initiatives shaping the future of the BUX design system
Current Version: 1.6.5

BUX enables brand consistency across Ohio State’s digital environments at scale and acts as the official brand translation for websites. As we continue to grow the design system into a robust enterprise solution for Ohio State’s web ecosystem, we will focus on the follow initiatives in upcoming releases this year.

Key initiatives coming soon​

System-wide evolutions​

  • Transition to Figma: We are working to transition to Figma as our primary UX/UI design tool and will explore implementing Figma libraries into BUX.
  • Implement design tokens: Create, document, and implement foundational design variables as a single source of truth to strengthen consistency and support a scalable, mature design system.
  • Update BUX website: An updated BUX website with an improved, visual interface and more tools and guides to help users integrate BUX into their website.

Code optimizations​

  • Optimize BUX codebase for performance and compatibility: We will work to reduce the size of the final BUX CSS and JavaScript files by optimizing the underlying code to eliminate unused code and redundancies.
  • Develop Web Components API for BUX: We will build BUX components as custom elements with the Web Components API to allow users to adopt self-contained, drop-in BUX components.
  • Establish coding best practice guidelines: We will develop and publish best practices for code style and approach to create consistency across BUX components’ implementations, to increase the ability to reuse and share code and to make components more composable.

User experience optimizations​

  • Optimize mobile experiences: As mobile usage continues to grow, we will evaluate and enhance BUX components and experiences to ensure content remains compelling, accessible, and easy to engage with across screen sizes.
  • Explore third-party platform support: We’ll explore ways to improve BUX compatibility, theming, and implementation guidance for commonly adopted university platforms.
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