SKY UX® design system
Blackbaud's open source framework leverages reusable design patterns and components to create impactful, cohesive experiences across web applications.
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Improved visual theme
Blackbaud is adopting SKY UX's modern theme across our solutions to improve the look and feel. Modern theme enhances the user experience with better usability, a more useful hierarchy, and a cleaner, more focused aesthetic.Learn more
Build and design purpose-driven experiences
Components
Our components help create design patterns for clean, cohesive experiences across solutions.
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Design guidelines
Reliable, proven design strategies support scalability, empower users, and facilitate workflows.
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Styles
Core design elements provide the foundation for patterns, components, and workflows.
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SKY UX facilitates a consistent experience in Blackbaud solutions and empowers third-party developers to create customizations and applications that drive impact and deliver outcomes.
Accessibility
We design, build, and test SKY UX to be inclusive. The design system empowers you to deliver accessible experiences for all.
Consistency
Our reusable patterns and components make it easy to create seamless user experiences across Blackbaud solutions.
Efficiency
SKY UX maximizes your impact by letting you focus on workflows to solve the problems that users face.
Open source
SKY UX is proudly open sourced and provides third-party developers with the same toolset as Blackbaud developers.
Make good even better with Blackbaud SKY Developer
Make good even better with Blackbaud SKY Developer
Blackbaud SKY Developer enables developers to code for good. We provide a toolset that includes SKY UX, SKY Add-ins™, and SKY API® to extend, customize, and contribute to the capabilities of Blackbaud SKY®.
Learn moreHelp us improve SKY UX!
We highly encourage contributions from all SKY UX users. These community efforts help ensure that the design system meets the needs of end users in Blackbaud solutions. We just ask that contributors follow our contribution guidelines.