Independent reporting for product, design, engineering, and compliance teams

Digital rules,
product risk,
and the work after launch.

DesignIt.pro covers the part of regulation and web operations that lands on real teams: accessibility deadlines, security obligations, portability rules, resilience drills, and the product decisions hidden underneath policy headlines.

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LAW PRIMARY SOURCES FIRST
BUILD WRITTEN FOR IMPLEMENTATION
UPDATE PUBLIC REVISION HISTORY

Coverage Areas

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Digital Product Regulation

EU and UK rules that affect websites, apps, cloud products, and connected services once the compliance date actually arrives.

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Accessibility And UX Compliance

Accessibility requirements translated into design system rules, QA workflows, release gates, and procurement-ready evidence.

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Security And Resilience

Cyber resilience, operational continuity, supplier risk, and the controls teams need before audits or incident reviews expose the gaps.

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Operations And Delivery

Documentation, rollout discipline, recovery drills, and performance decisions that matter when requirements become enforceable.

How We Work

Reporting

We start with official texts, regulator guidance, standards, and implementation notes before we write anything opinionated.

Analysis

Each piece explains what changed, which date matters, who is exposed, and what work usually gets missed between legal review and release.

Review

We revise articles when dates move, guidance hardens, or practical obligations become clearer. Material changes are timestamped in public.

Scope

We would rather publish fewer briefings that teams can act on than a feed of thin summaries that go stale the week after publication.

Editorial Process

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Topic Selection

Choose subjects where a legal or standards change creates immediate design, engineering, or operational work.

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Source Review

Read the official text first, then compare it with regulator guidance, implementation material, and current delivery practice.

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Editorial Draft

Write for the people doing the work: what changed, what date matters, what to inventory, and what breaks if you wait.

04

Technical Review

Pressure-test the piece against real release workflows, supplier dependencies, and evidence a team could actually gather.

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Public Updates

If a milestone passes or guidance changes materially, we revise the page and make the updated date visible.

Editorial transparency

How reporting, corrections, and review work

Our standards page explains how we source, verify, revise, and correct coverage. It is part of the publication, not hidden legal padding.

Latest Reports

Press / to search reports

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AGENT_ZERO_AFTER_V0_9_8

A look at Agent Zero's current public release line: memory controls, projects, skills, Git-backed work, subagents, and a wider integration surface.

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DATA_ACT_AFTER_GO_LIVE

Why 12 September 2025 was only the starting gun, and why product teams now need evidence for portability, switching, and provider exit.

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ACCESSIBILITY_AFTER_JUNE_2025

The European Accessibility Act is now live. This briefing maps what that means for ecommerce flows, component QA, and evidence collection.

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RESILIENCE_DRILLS_UNDER_DORA

What regulated operational resilience looks like after the deadline passes: tested procedures, accountable ownership, and third-party evidence.

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DESIGN_SYSTEMS_FOR_REGULATED_RELEASES

Design systems now carry legal weight. The article shows how tokens, contribution rules, and signoff workflows reduce compliance drift.

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:: ART_06

AI_ACT_READINESS_MAP

With early AI Act duties already in force and the main framework approaching August 2026, teams need a product inventory now, not later.

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EFFICIENCY_IS_AN_OPERATING_DECISION

Performance, asset weight, and repeat-download waste increasingly show up in procurement questions, sustainability reviews, and accessibility outcomes.

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:: ART_08

CRA_SHIPPING_CALENDAR

The Cyber Resilience Act is not a distant legal memo anymore. This article maps the 2026 reporting date and the 2027 general application deadline.

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RETRY_DISCIPLINE_FOR_REAL_INCIDENTS

Still one of the fastest ways to turn a partial outage into a full one. We break down retry budgets, overload signals, and safe client defaults.

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DOCUMENTATION_THAT_SURVIVES_AUDIT

How to write handover notes, control inventories, and decision logs that remain usable when regulators, customers, or incident responders ask for proof.

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Update Log

[2026-04-06] :: UPDATE: AI Act readiness article updated with four-month countdown to 2 August 2026, Annex III high-risk categories, and deployer/provider role classification now in focus.
[2026-04-06] :: UPDATE: CRA shipping calendar updated with Article 14 reporting timeline specifics — 24h early warning, 72h notification, 30-day final report — ahead of the September 2026 date.
[2026-04-06] :: UPDATE: EAA accessibility briefing updated — 10 months in force, EN 301 549 v3.3.1 as harmonised standard, WCAG 2.2 as the working baseline for covered services.
[2026-04-06] :: UPDATE: DORA resilience article updated with ESA final RTS context and ICT third-party risk register requirements now 15 months in force.
[2026-04-06] :: UPDATE: Documentation guide reframed around CRA Article 13, AI Act Article 11, and DORA incident log requirements — not just developer workflow.
[2026-03-28] :: PUBLISH: Agent Zero report added, focused on the verified public release run from v0.9.6 through v0.9.8 and the shift toward skills, projects, Git workflows, and broader integrations.
[2026-03-28] :: UPDATE: Data Act briefing rebuilt around the post-12-September-2025 operating reality for cloud switching, data export quality, and supplier exit readiness.
[2026-03-28] :: UPDATE: Accessibility briefing refreshed to reflect the European Accessibility Act being in force since 28 June 2025 and what that changes for product teams now.
[2026-03-27] :: UPDATE: Resilience drill coverage now ties DORA evidence gathering to NIS2 incident ownership and third-party dependency testing.
[2026-03-27] :: UPDATE: Design systems coverage now focuses on accessibility evidence, regulated release governance, and approval paths that survive audit.
[2026-03-26] :: PUBLISH: New AI Act readiness map covering the rules already in effect and the product inventory work teams should finish before 2 August 2026.
[2026-03-26] :: UPDATE: Efficiency report expanded with procurement, accessibility, and repeat-download costs rather than sustainability slogans alone.
[2026-03-25] :: PUBLISH: Cyber Resilience Act calendar added with the 11 September 2026 vulnerability reporting date and the 11 December 2027 general application date.
[2026-03-25] :: UPDATE: Reliability report tightened around overload-safe APIs, client retry ceilings, and idempotency boundaries.
[2026-03-24] :: UPDATE: Documentation guide now focuses on decision logs, control inventories, and audit-ready handovers instead of generic productivity tips.
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