Posts Tagged ‘design systems’

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype is worth a thousand meetings.”– Tom & David Kelley But what if the meeting is the prototype? That’s the spirit of an idea I’m calling “Real-time UI” (the name […]

For years and years, I’ve helped teams evaluate their systems, fix their systems, tweak their systems, and evolve their systems. And sometimes it’s even been necessary to help teams declare bankruptcy on their systems, blow them up, and start anew. […]

A few months ago, I had the privilege of being interviewed on the Design Systems Collective by Shane P Williams. This interview captures a lot of my current thinking about design systems, our design tokens course, collaboration, recipes, and more.

Our Black Friday sale starts now! It will run now through Friday, December 5th. Level up your design systems game and save with our biggest sale of the year: MEGA BUNDLE: save 45% & get all courses for $1000! Save […]

We’re thrilled to announce our new online course: AI & Design Systems! You can preorder the course now for $500. Generative AI is here, it’s increasingly powerful, and…it can make a huge mess. Thankfully, design systems deliver quality UI infrastructure and […]

I had a lot of fun talking with Arseni Harkunou on the Product Craft podcast. We cover a ton of ground! What “good” means in the age of AI and the real role of a designer Practical advice on transitioning […]

There’s some great thinking about color systems, tokens, and the relationship between brand and product in this article: When Color Meets Constraints: A Guide to Brand–Product Collaboration

A full-ish history of user interfaces that can be themed to meet the opportunities and constraints of the time

I’m thrilled to be a juror for the upcoming Design System Awards from zeroheight. Only a few more days to submit your design system for consideration!

TL;DR: You can preorder my new Atomic Design Certification Course for only $50! Why create an Atomic Design Certification Course? I’ve got big ambitious for this course, and I’m aiming to: Increase design system adoption For years, people (me included!) […]

I like Chris waxing on design tokens and am glad our Shop Talk Show appearance gave some food for thought. While not every organization is wrestling with a Multi-All-The-Things situation, every website and app can benefit from even a lightweight […]

I had a great conversation with Jason Lengstorf on his Learn With Jason show. We talked about design tokens, the importance of design system recipes, our new course, and the need for healthier/more human/more collaborative workflows.

In our new comprehensive online course, Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens, we discuss the need to revisit the powerful concept of separation of concerns. Separation of concerns is a computer science principle introduced in the mid 1970s that […]

Note: This post is adapted from our new online course, Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens. Our comprehensive course delivers over 13 hours of video, enterprise-grade token architecture for both Figma & code, hundreds of resources, a certificate of […]

I had the pleasure of speaking with Vy Alechnavicius on the Experienced Design podcast. We had a great wide-ranging conversation!

Guess what!? Our course, Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens, is done! We published the last of the videos, and are putting on the finishing touches before and adjusting to the full price and making our big announcement. Cue […]

We’ve been absolutely rocking and rolling over here and are proud to announce that Chapters 5 and 6 of our Subatomic Design Tokens Course are now live! With only 2 chapters left to go, there’s only 2 weeks left to […]

I had the extraordinary honor to appear on the Design Better podcast and talk with my friends Aarron Walter and Elijah Woolery. We talked about why we’re still passionate about design systems after 12 years, the human side of design […]

There’s some fantastic UI inspiration on Fancy Components. I can already here the grumblings around practicality, accessibility, React, etc, but let’s park all that for a bit and just enjoy some fun and creative UI design.

I’m messing with my MailChimp account and really love their Brand Kit feature. You have the ability to upload logos, define color palettes, typography, personality, button styles, and more. I especially like the experience around managing logos. They provide a […]

We’re cooking with gas on our Subatomic design tokens course and are gearing up for a really big milestone! We’re about to launch Chapter 4, which details the nuts and bolts of building out a token system in Figma and […]

OH HELL YEAH: designtokens.fyi by Donnie D’Amato is a mega-helpful glossary of design tokens terms.

Do you love having to name things? Of course you don’t! That’s why we’re so excited to announce that Chapter 3 of our Subatomic Design Tokens Course is now live! We have a FULL HOUR AND A HALF of video […]

David Darnes says You’re Not Creating Enough Prototypes, and I agree! David shares some great real-world examples of how he’s wielded design system components for rapid prototyping. We need more of this!

We’re thrilled to announce that Chapter 2 of our Subatomic Design Tokens Course is now live! This chapter provides 74-minutes of video diving deep into design token architecture and foundations. We cover a ton of ground, including: The three-tiered token system consists of three tiers: […]

I had the tremendous honor of being the first guest on Elyse Holladay‘s new podcast, On Theme: Design Systems In Depth! Brad Frost takes us back in time to the early days of design systems, and walks us through some […]

In addition to stuffing our faces with cookies, Ian and I were hard at work over the holidays creating our design tokens course. I’m freaking thrilled that we published 2 hours of preorder-exclusive video content, shared several dozen links, and included […]

BIG NEWS! We’re hard at work making an online course called Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens. Over the past decade, Ian Frost and I have created design token systems for dozens of organizations — including some of the […]

React v19 was just released with support for Web Components! React 19 adds full support for custom elements and passes all tests on Custom Elements Everywhere. In past versions, using Custom Elements in React has been difficult because React treated […]

I recently had the pleasure of doing a Q&A session with Molly Helmuth’s Design System Bootcamp cohort. The questions were great and varied, so I asked Molly if she’d be alright if I shared my answers with you all. Thankfully, […]