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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Recent blog posts
- 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.
All blog posts
- 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.
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Dark mode done rightDark mode is not an inverted light mode. What we changed, what we measured, and what we got wrong first.
- UX review presentations
How do you create compelling presentations that wow your colleagues and impress your managers?
- Migrating a design system to DrumKit
A step-by-step plan for moving your components, styles and documentation without a freeze.
- Building your API stack
The rise of RESTful APIs has been met by a rise in tools for creating, testing and managing them.
