Today in Short Links

Today’s work focused on product surfaces that make Zebra Link feel more deliberate: QR design controls, dashboard browsing, and smaller UI details around messages and status.

What changed

• Expanded QR code design work with variants and more flexible styling controls.
• Reworked color picking around fills and gradients.
• Improved dashboard browsing components for links, collections, and shared items.
• Tightened status and message surfaces so feedback has a clearer place in the UI.

Product notes

The QR work is becoming more than a utility dialog. The direction is a design surface where QR codes can match a space, a campaign, or a brand without requiring a separate design tool for every small adjustment.

Dashboard browsing is getting similar attention. Links and collections need to be fast to scan, but not reduced to anonymous rows. The current work is about making dense product areas easier to read without making them feel heavy.

In progress

The color controls are still settling. Gradients add power, but they also make defaults and preview behavior more important. The useful version is the one that lets people make a good-looking QR quickly and then go deeper only when they need to.