Take a look back at how BUX evolved over the past year to support the teams who rely on the design system every day, with a focus on usability, accessibility and more consistent digital experiences across Ohio State websites.
BUX 1.6 updates Ohio State's digital typography recommendations, making Buckeye Sans the default font for most digital body copy. The change is based on evolving accessibility guidance and industry research.
Redesigning the College of Public Health website meant untangling years of content, modernizing design and improving usability. Relaunched in July 2025, the site reflects a collaborative, campus-wide effort that integrated the BUX system to deliver a flexible, user-centered experience.
Dark mode has become an expectation in modern digital experiences — and BUX is evolving to meet it. Designing for dark mode requires more than a color inversion. Learn how BUX approaches dark mode through accessibility, usability and Ohio State brand principles.
Now available in BUX 1.5, dark mode is built to be flexible, accessible, and easy to adopt. Get an overview of how it works and what developers need to implement it with confidence.
When organizing content-heavy webpages, web teams often consider components that condense content, such as Tabs or Accordions. The best choice depends not only on the content itself, but also on how and where users are viewing it — on large or small screens. To help with these questions, Marketing’s Diane Meves led UX/UI designers through user testing to inform BUX guidance and better support web teams.
The BUX team has made an effort to incorporate microinteractions into the BUX design system, to give the design an extra level of polish and more engaging user interaction.
User contribution is at the heart of BUX. As a grassroots initiative, BUX thrives on collaboration from the Ohio State community to build and refine our shared design system. This system isn’t just a collection of components — it’s a living, evolving resource shaped by the people who use it every day. By inviting contributions from across campus, we aim to create a design system that reflects the diversity, creativity and expertise of Buckeyes everywhere.
Most Ohio State sites offer a simple conversion to BUX, with a site’s existing components easily matching to components and templates offered on the BUX website. But some sites have needs beyond what BUX offers, allowing for an opportunity to create something new while still following our brand digital design principles.
The BUX design system offers a centralized source of truth for UI components, templates and guidelines, helping teams build consistent, scalable digital experiences at Ohio State.
But how did we arrive at these elements? What drove our thinking and our decisions? Our digital design principles aim to answer these questions and provide a guide for designers to follow as they expand on BUX’s core components to create custom solutions for individual units.