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It's finally here! 🎉
I wrote a post years ago about the ondark virus. Tokens named for how they look instead of what they mean. That post started something I couldn't stop thinking about.
Two years of research. Two years of writing. And apparently, it's delicious 😋
Get the book at mode.place.
"If you’ve ever felt restricted by a design system [...], you may be up against common psychological phenomena that limit your thinking."
Check out @donnie's article "Design systems don’t kill creativity – our biases do": https://zeroheight.com/blog/design-systems-dont-kill-creativity-our-biases-do/
🚀 Excited to announce my first book: Mise en Mode — an approach to adding creative expression into design systems! 🎉
First debuted at Clarity 2023, the strong interest led me to expand it into a full book.
📖 Be the first to know when it’s available: mode.place
Check out Clarity Conf online this week - look at that lineup!
Interesting read by @donnie: https://blog.damato.design/posts/truly-semantic/ on what truly #semantic #designTokens are.
Interesting take is that a semantic token should not include a scale (expectations are ordinal scales). This makes a lot of sense to me, but how about you? Do you agree with that idea?
🎉 I'm announcing the launch of Wireframe! A podcast about about design, development, and disambiguation in our digital world. Hosted by
yours truly. 😁
Check out the pilot episode at http://wireframe.fm 🎙️
Excited to announce Design System Events calendar is now live! https://DS.events 🚀 🗓️
Discover the best events around the world, and easily stay up to date by subscribing to the iCalendar and RSS feeds.
Release announcement:
https://x.com/donniedamato/status/1704155589130015119?s=20
“This lawsuit against Adrian Roselli impacts every person who cares about including disabled people in the digital world. It impacts all of us who speak, write, and advocate for digital accessibility that is fair, equitable, and ethical.”
A software vendor sued a prominent accessibility consultant for (soundly) criticizing their product. Here’s @LFLegal on why that matters: https://www.lflegal.com/2023/07/adrian-roselli-slapp-lawsuit/
This is an article about a lawsuit filed by AudioEye, a multi-million dollar accessibility company, against Adrian Roselli, a long-time leader in the global digital accessibility community. Adrian has been a vocal critic, as have I, against one-line of code software that claims to make websites acce
Colors don't solve problems. Your breakpoints are pointless. T-shirt sizing isn't semantic. Something something Tailwind. If these hot takes are your jam, join me and the Design Systems Field Guide hosts live next week to weigh in!
Oliver Lindberg
Mia (web luddite)
Lukas Oppermann
Josh Harwood
Tyler Gaw
Ethan Marcotte