Posts Tagged ‘storybook’

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  1. 15 Nov, 2024

    Design Systems Q&A

    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, […]

  2. 15 Feb, 2023

    Testing Components in Storybook in 2023

    Testing design system component libraries is critically important, but has historically been a pain in the butt to implement. That’s why I’m thrilled my brilliant colleague wrote Testing Components in Storybook in 2023,ย which details how to lean into Storybook’s testing […]

  3. 02 Dec, 2022

    Component testing in Storybook

    “Writing your component UI tests in Jest can feel a little like stabbing at your components with a blindfold on.”- Michael Chan This nails it. I used to think my stumbling over testing design system component libraries was a personal […]

  4. 12 Sep, 2022

    Component testing in Storybook with play functions

    Here’s my man Chantastic with a great video summarizing how to write interactive tests with Storybook. Unit testing has always been a bit of a rough spot in our workflow and seemed duplicative or off to the side of the […]

  5. 26 Jun, 2022

    Why most design systems implode

    Here’s a nice article by the folks at Storybook that deconstructs my interview with Michael Chan.ย  The gist of the article is: ๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ Not all engineers are made for design system work ๐Ÿ›  Design system developers need custom tools ๐ŸŒ […]

  6. 06 Feb, 2022

    Structuring your Storybook

    Here’s the Storybook team with a post that breaks down how different teams organize and structure their Storybooks. This kind of analysis is great and demonstrates how you can slice things in many useful ways depending on the needs and […]

  7. 21 Jan, 2022

    Atomic Design and Storybook

    I had the honor to be the first guest on Storybook‘s new Storytime show with the great Michael Chan (aka @chantastic). We talked about the history of atomic design and the rise of the modern JS landscape, how directly-consumable UI […]