Resources and insights

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.

Written by

Caitlyn King

Published on

22 Sep 2026

File under

• Interviews
• Design

Design

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 Frameworks

• 

  Software Engineering

  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.

  

  Nic Davidson8 Sep 2026
• 

  Software Engineering

  Building your API stack

  The rise of RESTful APIs has been met by a rise in tools for creating, testing and managing them.

  

  Rich Wilson28 Jul 2026
• 

  Product

  Mental models for product managers

  Mental models are simple expressions of complex processes. Here are the six we use most.

  

  Lana Steiner14 Jul 2026