Mia Ward on building a design system people want to use
Read postOur 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 useRead post
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 roadRead post
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 productRead post
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 guideRead post
The five things a developer needs from a design file, and how to hand them over without booking a single call.