Your Loading Spinner Has an Emotional Job. Is It Doing It?
Most of us treat design systems as a functional problem: consistent colors, consistent spacing, consistent components. That part's solved for most tea…
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Design systems for startups
A design system sounds like something you earn later — a luxury for companies big enough to have a design-systems team. For a startup that's exactly b…
BEM Methodology in CSS: predictable naming for clean styles
Why BEM? As frontend projects grow, CSS quickly turns fragile—poor class names cause style collisions, debugging pain, and slow iteration. BEM gives y…
DRY is not for UI
When we talk about UI, we almost always start by thinking about small components we can reuse across the frontend. And of course we can't reuse every …
Introducing Arvia: a design system compiler for the web
Introducing Arvia Arvia is a design system compiler. You describe your tokens, themes, and components in .arv files, and a compiler turns each one int…
Why AI Keeps Generating the Wrong Design Tokens and How I Fixed It with Figma's API
AI design system output is approximate by default. Wrong border radii, raw hex values, inconsistent tokens across 60 components. The fix isn't better …
Design Tokens vs Atomic CSS: A Failed Integration and the Path to Harmony
A personal developer's attempt to map design tokens to UnoCSS failed the same day. But it resulted in a set of pragmatic boundaries. This article cove…
How We Shipped more than 60 Design System Components in 5 Weeks Using Figma as the Single Source of Truth
We estimated 300 engineer-days. We shipped in 35 days with 3,077 tests and zero raw hex values. Here's the pipeline I built to make Figma the literal …
I Asked AI to Fix My UI 20+ Times. The Problem Wasn't My Prompts.
The feature was done. Everything worked. I opened the browser, looked at the page, and thought: it's functional, but it's just... off. So I did what f…
Design to Code #8: The Cosmetics of Modularity
It was sometime in early April. Version 0.1.0 had been sitting on npm for maybe twenty-four hours. I was clicking through the documentation site I'd j…
Custom behavior without custom code
Every successful SaaS product eventually meets the same question: a customer asks for something specific to them, you build it, and now you have a fea…
Theming in the Modern Age
Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and write a series of articles documenting the steps …
AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, DESIGN.md: How AI Instructions Split into Three Layers
In April 2026, Google Labs released a spec called DESIGN.md . It's a design system specification readable by AI agents, packaged with a CLI validator:…