Director Design Systems @Contentsquare Designer who codes Coffee snob Pun Connoisseur Prev @TokensStudio @newskitdesign
Just outside London
Joined February 2012
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We recently refactored a bunch of our shadcn components to react-aria after getting sick of radix patches and a key deciding factor in choosing react-aria over baseui was trusting a developer that doesn't abandon their projects or start fights on the internet
Guilty of this many times over
The most enjoyable mistake in design engineering: you build something lovely, then go looking for a reason to ship it.
A designer hands off, and the handoff is a checkpoint. When you do both jobs, there's no checkpoint. You build first and reason later.
But reasoning after the fact isn't reasoning, it's defence.
Luke Finch retweeted
People think design is about how it looks.
It’s really about a deep and fundamental commitment to replying to your Slacks, Figma comments, Linear comments, emails, hopping on a quick call then doing all that one more time whoops times up see you at the craft factory tomorrow
Figma make is insane once you've figured out how to get your design system in there.
I spent a crazy amount of time this week getting it working and ran into a few hiccups. I published my adivce here for you all.
Build → Publish → Install → Done
finchy.medium.com/how-to-get…
Luke Finch retweeted
I've been tinkering away with a live design <> code, desktop app where you can select any element in the DOM and it takes you straight to the source code.
Interesting iconography choice @NotionHQ
ALT The icon for API on notion.com looks like an anus - it's an asterisk nestled gracefully between two curly braces
Thanks Josh for such flattering photos - hope you got some enjoyable takeaways between the tech issues and heartbreak
Thanks for having me @zeroheight - converge was a warm hug of design systems content!
