Stop exporting JSON tokens and use CSS variables instead
A designer tagged me in a Figma comment on Tuesday morning. They wanted to know if we could start exporting our brand tokens as deeply nested JSON f…
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How I turn any handful of colours into a readable theme
Open the theme picker, choose Flatland from the base16 list, and the cards on the page lose their edges. Text and links are fine, but every border a…
Four Stops Instead of Thirty: Rebuilding the Dashboard and Retiring Hand-Rolled UI
An editor's real complaint about the main video-generation service's internal tool wasn't any single bug. It was the shape of using it: thirty confi…
A design system fixes accessibility once, if it's the only source
Do accessibility remediation long enough and you arrive at the same conclusion every time. Stop fixing instances. Fix the thing that generates them.…
I locked my AI's design output with JSON. It worked perfectly — and everything looked like a spreadsheet
Mass-produce web tools with an AI agent and you will hit this wall: the design drifts on every generation. Same instructions, subtly different color…
Enhance your CSS Reset with your Design System
If you're starting a web project, you're probably starting with a CSS reset, and for most of us, that means reaching for a trusted community solutio…
Stop flattening your typography tokens: Preserving bound aliases in W3C exports
I was looking at a pull request last Monday. The marketing team had just rolled out a massive rebrand. We swapped our primary typeface from Inter to…