Mia Ward on building a design system people want to use
Our Head of Design on tokens, naming, saying no, and why DrumKit’s own system is its first customer.
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Mia Ward on building a design system people want to use
Our Head of Design on tokens, naming, saying no, and why DrumKit’s own system is its first customer.
A month of designing on the road
Four of us swapped Collingwood for Lisbon, Kyoto and a van in Tasmania. Here’s what remote design taught us.
Design tokens that scale past one product
How to name, layer and ship tokens so a second product, a rebrand or dark mode is a change of values, not a rewrite.
Handoff without meetings: a practical guide
The five things a developer needs from a design file, and how to hand them over without booking a single call.
Building accessible colour palettes from scratch
Contrast ratios, ramps and the one test we run before any colour ships in DrumKit.
Mia Ward •
Dark mode done right
Dark mode is not an inverted light mode. What we changed, what we measured, and what we got wrong first.
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