My Designs

The My Designs page is where you manage all your saved palettes and design systems.

Viewing your designs

Navigate to My Designs in the main navigation to see all your saved palettes. You must be signed in to access this page.

Each design card shows:

A color strip preview of the palette.
The design name.
Status — Active (has enough colors for a complete system) or Draft (work in progress).
When it was last modified.

View options

Toggle between Grid and List views using the controls at the top of the page.

Actions

Each design has quick actions available:

Open — Load the design into the palette editor to continue working on it.
Publish / Update Published — Put the design system on a public page, or change the settings of one already published.
Unpublish — Shown once a system is published. Takes the public page down and keeps the design system.
Promote to System — Shown on palettes. Creates a design system from the palette; the palette itself is left untouched.
Duplicate — Make an independent copy.
Archive — Hide the system from the default list without deleting it. Unpublish it first: a published system cannot be archived.
Delete — Permanently remove the design. This action cannot be undone.

The public gallery

Publishing a design system does more than mint a share link — it lists the system in the public Gallery, where anyone can browse it, filter by tag, and remix it into their own workspace.

Two settings in the publish dialog control whether your system appears there:

Visibility — only Public systems are listed in the gallery. Unlisted systems stay reachable by their link but are never browsable, and Private systems are not shared at all.
Allow search indexing — shown only when visibility is Public. Turn it off and the system keeps its public link, but drops out of both the gallery and the sitemap submitted to search engines.

The gallery sorts by recency by default; switch to Most remixed to see what others have built on most.

Taking a published system down again

Unpublish removes the public page and nothing else. The /p/… link stops resolving, the system leaves the gallery and the sitemap, and the design system stays in My Designs untouched — you can publish it again whenever you like, and the address is released for reuse.

Deleting a published system also takes its public page down, because the publication belongs to the system. If what you want is the page gone and the work kept, unpublish; the delete confirmation will say so too.

One system cannot be unpublished by its owner: one a moderator has removed. That is deliberate, and the message explains it rather than failing silently — see below.

Reporting a published system

Every public system page carries a Report link at the foot, next to the share buttons. Use it if something published there infringes someone's work, is offensive, is spam, or impersonates a person or brand. You do not need an account to report — the link works for anyone who can see the page.

Reporting flags the system for a moderator. Nothing about the page changes until someone has reviewed it, and the author is not notified that a report was filed.

If a moderator does remove a system from public view, its gallery listing, public page, social preview and remix link all stop working. Your own copy is never deleted — the design system stays in My Designs exactly as it was, and it can be restored to public view if the removal turns out to have been a mistake. Its published address stays reserved to you while it is down, so nobody else can claim it.

If your system is removed

You are emailed when it happens, and the message carries the reason on record — you do not have to discover it by finding your own link broken. The email links to an appeal page for that system, which shows the same reason and takes your reply. The link keeps working even if you later edit the publication.

Submitting an appeal opens a feedback ticket you can follow at My Feedback, and a person reads it. Replies arrive there, so the conversation stays in one place. Filing a second appeal for the same system returns you to the open ticket rather than starting another thread.

Version history

Open a design system and a History button appears in the header. It lists that system's recorded versions, newest first, 50 at a time — Load older versions fetches the next 50.

What gets recorded:

Saving the system from the workspace records a version. Open a system from My Designs and it loads into the editor; Save then writes back to the system rather than creating a palette.
Publishing a system records a version.
Restoring an earlier version records the result as a new one.

A save that changed nothing does not record a duplicate — the confirmation tells you which version it recorded, and says only "Design system saved" when there was nothing new to record. The first save of a system that has no history also records the state it replaced, so a system built before version history existed has something to go back to.

Recording history never blocks a save: if the history write fails, your save still succeeds and the confirmation simply names no version. So "Design system saved" on its own means the save worked and the history did not gain an entry — either because nothing changed, or because recording it did not succeed.

Two more things are outside the history. Work you have on screen but have not saved is in no version — the workspace does not autosave in system mode. And nothing records automatically on a timer; a version is always the result of something you did.

From any older version you can:

Compare with the latest version — shows which colors, typography, spacing and radii differ. Changes confined to roles, scores, components, guardrails or icons are not shown, because the comparison only understands those four token categories.
Restore — replaces the system's name, description, colors, scales, roles, score data and tags with that version's, and records the result as a new version. History is never rewritten: nothing is deleted or renumbered.

Two things restore does not do. It leaves linked typography, spacing and other subsystems exactly as they are now — those live separately and are kept in the version only for reference. And it never changes publish status or a published link.

Restoring reloads the workspace with the restored content, so what is on screen afterwards is what you restored. Anything not recorded in the history is replaced and cannot be recovered — save first, and check the confirmation names a version, if you want a way back.

Creating a new design

Click Create New to open the palette editor with a blank palette. Once you save it, the design appears on this page.

Importing from Explore

You can also create a design by importing a curated palette from the Explore page. Click Use this palette on any Explore card, then save it from the editor.