Ethan Feng·1d agoStates vs. Variants: The Most Misunderstood Concept in Design SystemsConfusing temporal behavior with structural identity is silently destroying your developer experience.
Yugandhar Bhamare·3d agoWe built our design system lastSix designers explored freely in code. Then a harness turned what they found into a system, and keeps it from drifting back.
Indesignengineer.probyShashi Kumar·4d agoDesigner to Design Engineer: How to Make the MoveEvery version of this move looks the same from the outside. A product designer wants to stop handing off. A UI/UX designer is tired of…
Sebastian Balderas Espinosa·4d agoThe Spec tab: one brief for a person or a toolEvery component in my Storybook has a Spec tab that turns its contract into one copyable brief. Here is what that looks like for one…
Sebastian Balderas Espinosa·4d agoWhen the status is “unknown”, name who knowsIn Strata’s order line items table, some lines showed an “unknown” status because the order couldn’t be traced between manufacturer and…A response icon1A response icon1
Sebastian Balderas Espinosa·4d agoThe docs page that tells you not to use the componentIn my Storybook, a component’s docs page carries Do and Don’t, when to use it, when not to, an example and a success case. The “when not”…
Sebastian Balderas Espinosa·4d agoStart the design system at accessibilityBefore tokens, before the first Button, I’d pick the WCAG criteria the system will defend. Each component then inherits them instead of…
Balogun Oluwasogo·6d agoThe Space Between Design and EngineeringI started out in design towards the end of 2021, taking Google’s UX Design Professional Certificate course. I was interested in how digital…
Baran Ozdemir·6d agoAuto Layout Is Not Just a Shortcut: The Hidden Architecture of Modern Design SystemsStop treating Figma’s Auto Layout as a mere time-saver. It is the foundational logic that bridges design and code.
