About UIFry

UIFry began as a library of interface resources: UI kits, templates, style guides and practice briefs for designers who wanted to move faster. Over time, the questions we received changed. People were less interested in yet another dashboard template and more interested in why one template worked and another fell apart the moment real content arrived. So we started writing.

Today UIFry is an editorial site. We publish in-depth guides on Figma workflows, design systems, component patterns, typography, colour and accessibility, aimed at product designers, front-end developers and anyone who sits between the two. Our articles assume you already know your way around a design tool, and focus on the decisions that separate a polished product from a pretty mock-up.

What we cover

• Figma and tooling — auto layout, components and variants, variables and modes, and file organisation that scales across a team.
• Design systems — tokens, naming, documentation and the governance that keeps a system alive after launch.
• UI kits and resources — how to evaluate, adapt and get real value from kits and templates without inheriting their limitations.
• Component patterns — buttons, forms, tables, navigation, empty states and the edge cases every component needs.
• Accessibility — contrast, focus, motion, touch targets and inclusive content, woven into every topic.

How we work

Our contributors are practising designers and design engineers who build products for a living. Every guide is reviewed by at least one other practitioner, and we revisit older articles when tools or standards change, noting the update date at the top. We do not accept payment for coverage, and we do not run affiliate rankings. If a product or plugin appears in an article, it is there because it helps explain the idea.

Write for us

We are always interested in pitches from designers with hands-on experience of a topic: a migration to design tokens, a hard-won accessibility fix, a component that took five iterations to get right. Send a short outline and a link to your work through the contact page. We pay contributors for published pieces and edit collaboratively.

The name

“Fry” is a nod to the kitchen: a good interface, like a good meal, is mostly preparation. The ingredients are spacing, type, colour and structure; the cooking is the hundred small decisions that turn them into something people enjoy. We like our UI served fresh and hot.