Spaces per project, per moodboard
A Space for the current client. A Space for ongoing inspiration. A Space for design system reference. Each one persistent, each one separate.
Persistent browsing contexts.FOR DESIGNERS
Keep your references and inspiration alive.
Moodboards, design systems, competitor analysis, client research, each its own Space, each persistent.
What gets in the way
- References and inspiration tabs pile up. Closing the browser loses the curated set you spent an afternoon building.
- You read a great article on a design pattern last week. You can't find it in your history.
- Switching between client projects mixes everyone's references and creates noise.
- Annotation tools for the web are extensions. Your highlights belong to a third party.
- Documentation and your design tool don't coexist well, alt-tab makes you lose your place.
How Step helps
Split View for tool plus reference
Open Figma in one pane, the design system docs in the other. Or your moodboard in one pane and the source article in the other. The split persists.
Two pages, side by side.Marginalia for inspiration capture
Highlight passages on inspiration articles, color-coded by theme. Build a personal anthology of design thinking that lives in your Space, not in a third party's database.
Native annotations, no extension.Graph Find across every reference
Find that one quote about visual hierarchy you read in February. Cmd+F across every page in the Space.
Search across your entire Space.A typical workflow
- Create a Space for each active client and an Inspiration Space.
- Pin the design tools (Figma, etc.) and key references per Space.
- Use Split View to keep the design system visible while you work in Figma.
- Highlight key passages from inspiration articles with Marginalia.
- Close the browser at end of day. Reopen tomorrow with each Space ready.
- Search across references with Graph Find when you need a specific quote or pattern.