#designsystems — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #designsystems, aggregated by home.social.
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#Design #Introductions
What does an AI agent look like? · An introduction for design systems practitioners https://ilo.im/16flpg_____
#AI #AiAgents #AiTeams #ClaudeCode #Cursor #Figma #DesignSystems #UiDesign #WebDesign -
Design Systems Need Evals, by @murphytrueman.com:
https://blog.murphytrueman.com/design-systems-need-evals/?ref=frontenddogma.com
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A shaped interface starts with the meaning of the information.
What does the user need to understand? Which relationships matter? Is there a form that makes the concept recognizable before anyone reads the labels?
Much of interface design comes down to familiar parts such as input fields. A from-to field pairing, for example, appears in my bank’s app, in Uniswap, and in Uber.
https://yeseniaperezcruz.substack.com/p/a-design-language-is-more-than-a
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Does anyone know if there's a way to support relative units (1.5) or percent based (150%) line heights in @Figma variables?
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As part of the Ministry of Justice's Gov Reuse Library (a resource that brings together reusable elements for #DesignSystems, #Service Patterns, #DesignStandards and #Content #StyleGuides) - A guide to ‘Getting started in government digital, data and technology’ to help;
“… understand how #Government service teams work, find trusted guidance and connect with people across government.”
https://reuselibrary.service.justice.gov.uk/new-starter-guide
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#Design #Approaches
Spec-Driven UI component development · Deliver design intent across design, code, and docs https://ilo.im/16fc8i_____
#DesignIntent #AI #Figma #DesignSystems #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
Your documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet
🔖 https://gerireid.com/blog/organising-documentation-for-humans-and-ai/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/your-documentation-is-still-in-your-mums-filing-cabinet/ -
#Design #Approaches
A design language is more than a visual theme · Shaping meaning instead of assembling components https://ilo.im/16fb6r_____
#Communication #Components #DesignSystems #DesignLanguage #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign -
"Colour in particular gets created with marketing in mind where the objective is to grab attention. Bigger. Bolder. Better. But we all know if everything shouts, then nothing shouts. I know that colour adds emotion and gives users a way of remembering a brand. But it can also cause a lot of confusion, too. A wide range of colours shouldn’t be relied on to indicate meaning alone."
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Components Are Dead, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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Designer friends, do you like working with color scales (e.g. blue-1 through blue-10)?
They seem very neat and tidy but I get incredibly frustrated with them whenever I use them.
I think it's because they link saturation and value into a single variable. If I want a certain lightness I'm stuck with a connected saturation that may not feel right in context.
On side projects I generally just define some hues as variables. Then I define semantic variables using those hues but freestyling the saturation and value based on context. (Making sure to reuse these and not make too many.)
That's not as fancy but has worked better for me.
Am I missing something? Or do color scales kinda suck in practice?
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#Design #Approaches
The last product design tool · “Wireframes are so back.” https://ilo.im/16f1fh_____
#Wireframes #Tldraw #AI #Browser #DesignProcess #DesignSystems #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign -
Building Your Design System Workflow—Rituals and Templates, by @sturobson:
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Against Design System Federation, by @fox:
https://karolinaszczur.com/journal/against-design-system-federation/?ref=frontenddogma.com
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How to Build a Design System Strategy You’ll Actually Deliver, by @Amy_Hupe:
https://amyhupe.co.uk/articles/design-system-strategies/?ref=frontenddogma.com
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#Design #Debates
Components are dead · Consistency moved from the component to the token https://ilo.im/16ers2_____
#Consistency #Components #DesignSystems #DesignTokens #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
Design system components, Part 2: color palette, typography, iconography, imagery, layout, and UI components. The unglamorous ingredients that make a product feel like one coherent thing. https://blog.fontawesome.com/design-system-components/
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What Is Product Craft in the Age of AI and Design Systems?, by @bencallahan.com:
https://bencallahan.com/product-craft-in-the-age-of-ai-and-design-systems?ref=frontenddogma.com
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#Design #Guidelines
Not tokens · What to ask before creating any design token https://ilo.im/16epfh_____
#DesignTokens #DesignSystems #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
I'm hoping #GetFediHired helps me, a hands-on product designer and leader who knows the ropes and always stays curious, find my next full-time or fractional role (IC or player/coach).
I've built award-winning apps, great design systems, and assembled teams of really smart people. Also, I wrote a book on having hard conversations: "We Need to Talk" (Rosenfeld, 2025).
📍 Remote from California (PT–ET)
💼 Portfolio upon requestBoosts appreciated, DMs open.
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New branding? Who dat? The Allons-y Studio site got a full refresh yesterday, complete with new branding, clearer messaging, and more emphasis on design systems, web components, and accessibility.
Poke around: https://allons-y.studio/
Coming soon: a deep-dive into how web components are implemented in Gecko; custom elements and shadow DOM from the engine's side of the glass.
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an idea for part 18 (what‽ how many‽) of my design tokens workflow series is percolating …
if you've not seen any of the previous 17, or perhaps you've missed one or two, or a few … they're all here
https://www.alwaystwisted.com/series/
🙏🖤
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From Figma to Front End: A Handoff Guide for Seamless UI Design and Development, by @uxmatters.bsky.social:
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A design system is meant to be the guardrail for the visual and interaction layer of a product, the cost of a weak design system isn't just inconsistency anymore, it's bad automation at scale. You should be constantly assessing whether it's accurate enough to be trusted, because something is now going to generate against it thousands of times a month.
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#Design #Overviews
Design engineering · What it is, how it’s changed, and where it’s going https://ilo.im/16ec91_____
#DesignEngineering #DesignSystems #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
Building a premium Angular component library.
Neomorphism. Glass. Glow. Dark UI for gaming, crypto, and fintech.
30+ components, Storybook docs, dashboard templates, and motion demos.
Open to working with founders building ambitious products.