Done with components
Component libraries aren't design systems until people start caring.
My book on rebuilding design token architecture from first principles. Stop adding tokens, start expressing modes.
Takes best served hot, on design systems, design tokens, CSS, and the craft of bridging design and engineering. The full chronological archive lives on my blog; here are the highlights.
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Component libraries aren't design systems until people start caring.
Chip, badge, pill, tag, lozenge, how about none?
The importance of disclosing the reasons behind decisions.
Chaos theory meets design systems.
Uniformly reducing headings for smaller screens.
Another distraction from improving user experience
We've always wanted it, now it looks like we can have it.
Changing what I thought I knew about typesetting.
The least fun but most required part of our work.
Pixels or font size for dimensions, and when.
That's the 10 most-read. The full chronological archive of all 73 posts lives on the blog.