Here’s a couple of lessons I’ve learned about how not to build React components. These are things I’ve come across over the past couple of months and thought they might be of interest to you if you’re working on a …
A clever idea from Matthew Ström:
[…] design APIs don’t seem like a stretch of the imagination. An API-driven approach is the natural extension of the work currently being done on design systems, including tokens and standardization projects.
If you …
The team at Stripe explores how they’re refining their color palette to make it more accessible and legible for users across all their products and interfaces. Not only that but the team built a wonderful and yet entirely bonkers app …
Here’s a new book by Andrew Couldwell all about design systems and I’m looking forward to reading the book because it looks like his experience will offer a bunch of insightful thoughts and advice.…
I woke up one morning and realized that I had it all wrong. I discovered that code and design are unable to solve every problem on a design systems team, even if many problems can be solved by coding and …
I had a little rant in me a few months ago about design systems: “Who Are Design Systems For?” My main point was that there are so many public and open source ones out there that choosing one can feel …
Here’s a fascinating look at The Guardian’s design system with a step-by-step breakdown of what’s gone into it and what options are available to designers and developers. It shows us how the team treats colors, typography, layouts, and visual cues …
Ethan Marcotte has written up his process for how to make drop caps accessible for screen readers and browsers alike. All of that is very interesting and I’m sure I’ll use a technique like this in the near future, but …
This post covers how I built a typography grid for a design system using Vue render functions. Here’s the demo and the code. I used render functions because they allow you to create HTML with a greater level …
Specific design systems, I mean. Design systems, as a concept, are something just about any site can benefit from.
A lot of hype goes into design systems these days. Just the other day, an organization’s published their design system publicly …
Have you ever created a well-intentioned, thoughtful design system only to watch it grow into an ever-increasing and scary codebase? I’ve been working in sort of the opposite direction, inheriting the scary codebase and trying to create a thoughtful …
