Display Builder Discussed on 'Talk On My Machine' Session
A recent session of Talk On My Machine, hosted by SparkFabrik, features Michaël Fanini presenting Display Builder, with a written recap later published on the UI Suite blog.
Michaël, who serves as a presales engineer at DropTeam and co-leader of the UI Suite initiative, opens the session with an overview of the seven-year evolution of UI Suite. He outlines the initiative’s aim to make Drupal a design system-native CMS by connecting structured design systems directly to Drupal’s architecture through APIs and contrib modules.
The presentation explains how UI Suite bridges components, icon packs, style utilities, and design tokens with Drupal’s display layer. Modules such as UI Patterns, UI Icons, UI Styles, and UI Skins translate design system artefacts into Drupal plugins that can be configured without writing template overrides or custom PHP.
Display Builder is introduced as the missing layer intended to unify Drupal’s fragmented display surfaces. Instead of switching between Block Layout, Layout Builder, Manage Display, and Views, the tool provides a single visual interface that works across page layouts, entity displays, and View outputs.
The live demo showcases drag-and-drop layout management, profile-based interface customisation for different user roles, automatic migration from Layout Builder, reusable pattern presets, entity-level overrides across multiple view modes, and Views integration. A real-time collaboration feature powered by HTMX demonstrates simultaneous editing and activity logging between multiple users.
Slides from the session are available via a shared drive link, and the full recording is published on SparkFabrik’s YouTube channel. The accompanying blog recap provides additional context around UI Suite’s roadmap and ongoing community collaboration.
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