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System of Least Resistance 🔗
The importance of reviewing expectations and providing small incremental ways to adopt your design system [...]
This Blog Is Independent Now 🔗
This blog is now solely owned by me, David Darnes, your friendly neighborhood Design Systems person [...]
Bluesky & Design Systems Communities 🔗
Now is a great time to join Bluesky if you're looking for likeminded folks to learn and share about design systems [...]
Design Systems Glossaries & Primitive tokens 🔗
There's an abundance of lexicon in design systems, for better or worse, so it's nice to see the community sharing definitions [...]
Dependency in Design Systems 🔗
Are we thinking considerately enough when introducing dependencies into our company's design and development workflows? [...]
The Unsolicited Design System 🔗
What if the only way to prompt design system discussion is to do a bad job to begin with? [...]
Design System Checklist 🔗
An open-source checklist to help you plan, build, and grow your design system. [...]
What Even Is Style Dictionary Anyway? 🔗
A guide on Style Dictionary, Design Tokens Community Group Spec, and a few things in between. [...]
The Unsung Design System Strut 🔗
The reasons for supporting open-source tools are only compounded when working with design systems [...]
Design Systems Is the Good Fight 🔗
More often than not you're going to find yourself defending the goals and purposes of your design system [...]
HTML is a Global Design System 🔗
Ever since Brad Frost mentioned it at the start of the year, the Global Design System fuse has continued to burn slowly [...]
CarPlay design system 🔗
Apple shares their latest CarPlay UI at WWDC24 [...]
WTF is a Design System? 🔗
We asked, and this is what you all said [...]