This page features recent content added to the EFDS.
What's New
October 2026
In the #editor-design-consistency Slack channel, Unity developers and designers worked together to fix 33 Editor issues and bugs
Reorderable lists new EFDS guidance for this IMGUI component. It shows a scrollable list you can reorder, add to, and remove from, and is used to manage serialized collections from MonoBehaviours and ScriptableObjects.
History navigation, global vs local: new EFDS guidance on the two types. Global history is Editor-wide and tracks any selection that affects the main Inspector. Local history is specific to one window and suits self-contained editing environments that manage their own selection separately from the main Inspector.
IMGUI and UI Toolkit helpbox alignment: fixed layout compression and scaling problems when windows are resized.
January 2024
UI Copy Style for all user-facing text in an interface, such as buttons, titles, error messages, and notifications.
UI Copy Style for all user-facing text in an interface, such as buttons, titles, error messages, and notifications.
November 2023
New Authoring Flows page on contexts and workflows for manipulating in-game objects and assets
New Inspector Spacing content explaining UITK tokens used for padding and margins
New segmented Tabs control is now available for UITK
September 2023
New Content Organization page on grouping content without creating visual clutter
New Tabs page on organizing content across segmented panels using tabs
Related guidance on Window Tabs / Tab Wells guidance has moved to the Windows page
March 2023
In preparation for 2022.3 release being upgraded to LTS, we have added new controls and guidance covered by this release.
UX Essentials are a new way of discovering the most helpful guidelines! View the top guidelines to help ensure your functionality matches the look, feel and behavior of the Editor.
Added Empty state guidance (pattern), together with content best practices.
Added Errors and messaging guidance (pattern), to help communicate conditions, events, or show responses to user actions.
Added radio buttons, a new component introduced with LTS 2021.2
November 2022
Fresh Interaction guidance! View the guidance on control state indicators and interaction methods found in the Editor.