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Autumn has arrived

As we move into the new season and quarter, the MDS team have a number of updates to share!
17 October 2023

Q3 review

Over Q3 2023 the MDS team:

✅   Delivered 33 new features and updates
✅   Fixed 38 bugs
✅   Completed 2 research studies

Check out our backlog section to see what we shipped over Q3!

Q4 ambitions

We have now released our ambitions for Q4 Highlights include:

  • A new Button Group component to supercede the existing community contributed Content Switcher component.
  • Date and Time combination component.
  • Input mask support for fields e.g. for credit card numbers, dates etc.
  • Decorative colours and extending those to the Tag component.
  • Mearsk Dark theme out of beta.
  • New validation guidelines.
  • The new typeahead component out of beta and into production. See below!

New Typeahead core component

The community contributed Typeahead component has been a great success. However, it became clear that we needed a core version providing everyone with official MDS Team support

As such, we have now shipped a beta of the new MDS Core Typeahead component. The ambition is to provide a fully supported Typeahead by the end of Q4 2023.

This new component is considered “beta” and is open for testing and feedback. Please look at migrating to the new core version and let us know how you get on!

File upload now production ready

The File upload is now out of beta and ready to be used in your production sites. This first version includes two variants, a default click button to choose files and a drag-and-drop mode.

Table updates

Work on the new core Table component continues, and we have recently shipped the following new features:

  • Ability to add a description to a column. This is then rendered as a tooltip on hover.
  • New state and header slots providing even more customisation options.

New Figma libraries

Working in collaboration with our friends in Brand Management, we have shipped 2 additional Figma libraries. Our joint goal is to ease and simplify working with out brand as part of your daily workflow. Check them out below!

MDS: Pictograms
MDS: Maersk CVI

New error messages guidelines

Concise and precise error messages can help the user recover from errors quickly and painlessly. You can read more about them in our new error messages guidelines.

As always, thank you for your invaluable input, support and feedback. If you have any questions or would like to know more, please reach out to us.