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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.

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Caitlyn King

Published on

22 Sep 2026

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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.

Caitlyn King22 Sep 2026

3 posts tagged Accessibility

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  Design

  Building accessible colour palettes from scratch

  Contrast ratios, ramps and the one test we run before any colour ships in DrumKit.

  

  Megan Sims25 Aug 2026
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  Design

  Dark mode done right

  Dark mode is not an inverted light mode. What we changed, what we measured, and what we got wrong first.

  

  Mia Ward18 Aug 2026
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  Software Engineering

  Testing components like a product

  Visual, accessibility and behaviour tests for a component library, and what each one catches.

  

  Nic Davidson3 Mar 2026