Pretending to be a Lead Engineer. Poorly. Sidekick to the Wise Design System's engineers. Master of unfinished projects. Backpacker and a photographer.
London
Joined March 2008
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Embarking on a new adventure as an Engineering Lead for Wise Design System.
Looking forward to all the unknowns, "I don't knows", and generally getting schooled by my team 💚
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Design Tokens Specification reaches first stable version: a huge milestone for design systems and the design tooling industry.
✅ Vendor-neutral
✅ Modern color support
✅ Theming and multi-brand ready
✅ Backed by design tools and open-source projects
w3.org/community/design-toke…
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The most important thing when you're working with coding agents:
DO NOT DELEGATE YOUR THINKING
Not only will this make for worse code, but the muscle you developed that makes you valuable in society, that you fought so hard to improve, will wither and die.
Hello design systems friends 👋
We're growing our team at Wise and are looking for a talented mid-weight frontend engineer 🙌
👉 Job description + application: wise.jobs/job/software-engin…
📍The role is London based with a couple of days in the office a week.
As no surprise to anyone, @elliotjaystocks amazes with his latest "Universal Principles of Typography" book. Absolutely loving the details, content, and (obviously) the type setting of the whole thing.
Go get a copy for yourself or your team: elliotjaystocks.com/book
ALT Book chapter titled: Use small caps to avoid shouting at the reader.
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🎥Watch the full talk on "Getting started with iOS accessibility": youtu.be/qARcnT1JSiU?feature…
🗣️Interested in sponsoring future DSL meetups? Contact us: yld.io/contact-us/community-…
#designsystems #designsystemslondon #productdesign #community
This might be the most amazing ligature glyph in UTF I've ever seen in my whole life.
compart.com/en/unicode/U+FDF…
ALT Unicode Character “﷽” (U+FDFD) - Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
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Store your design tokens in W3C DTCG compatible format.
Coming soon to Tokens Studio 🚀
@DesignTokens
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Just for the lovely #patternsDay folks - we’re launching super early bird tickets for this year’s Converge event in Brighton October 2-4!! But shhhhh
zeroheight.com/events/conver…
Cc @clearleft
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Tickets have dropped to our inaugural episode of #BackToSchoolPod - grab yours to join me and @gerireid for a chat about AI-generated design system documentation 🎟️
zeroheight.com/webinars/back… – at Hitchin, England
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Pack your backpacks kids! @Amy_Hupe and I are going back to school 🎨
We're casting aside our opinionated assumptions to dive deep on #designSystems topics. First up: can AI really write design system docs?
📣 NEW PODCAST 📣 We’re super excited to announce that we have launched a new podcast series with none other than @Amy_Hupe and @gerireid! 🎉 Join them for the first episode of Back to School on the 21st February.
hubs.li/Q02kvw9_0
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I'm looking for my next role in design systems or accessibility. I can:
* Lead design on a systems team
* Write technical docs and specs
* Kickstart a digital accessibility program
* Be overwhelmingly enthusiastic
gerireid.com
Available 4 March, RTs appreciated 🙏
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TIL — GitHub's custom markdown syntax for notes and highlights supports Note, Tip, Important, Warning, and Caution.
When did this happen?
Side note: still not a fan of their non-standard blockquote syntax. 😅
![GitHub Markdown:
> [!NOTE]
> Highlights information that users should take into account, even when skimming.
> [!TIP]
> Optional information to help a user be more successful.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Crucial information necessary for users to succeed.
> [!WARNING]
> Critical content demanding immediate user attention due to potential risks.
> [!CAUTION]
> Negative potential consequences of an action.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_pTxZ8aMAA3PzO.jpg?name=orig)
ALT GitHub Markdown: > [!NOTE] > Highlights information that users should take into account, even when skimming. > [!TIP] > Optional information to help a user be more successful. > [!IMPORTANT] > Crucial information necessary for users to succeed. > [!WARNING] > Critical content demanding immediate user attention due to potential risks. > [!CAUTION] > Negative potential consequences of an action.
ALT Rendered GitHub notes with a blue notes, a green tip, a purple important, a yellow warning and a red caution.
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It's with much sadness my @newskitdesign adventure is at an end, we’ve been made redundant. I’m devastated for my lovely team.
So I'm looking for a new design or accessibility lead role, ideally on a #designSystem
gerireid.com
DMs open and RTs welcome!
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If you're a software engineer, your main job is maintaining legacy code.
Why? Because building a system doesn't take long, in comparison to how long code will last, assuming the code/business are successful.
Here are the 10 commandments of maintaining legacy code.
🧵
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New: The UX of Banking 🔥
"The narrative of the 'legacy banks catching up', is largely false."
builtformars.com/case-studie…
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Modals UX.👇🏽
Not many people like modals. They are disruptive, annoying and require immediate attention. Users dismiss them immediately, often before even realizing what they are all about.
So how do we fix that?
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If you're interested in CSS nesting, please vote for the option you'd prefer. Don't miss your chance to influence the CSSWG on this.
Unfortunately the voting system seems messed up, so if it doesn't let you vote, try adding a query string to the URL.
webkit.org/blog/13607/help-c…
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Feels like the industry has had a real cultural shift post Covid. @webdevconf there were talks about:
* prioritising mental health
* being conscious of our impact
* designing and building in the simplest way to be accessible to the most people
1/2
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Here’s a recording of how VoiceOver on Firefox announces the credit card number field in the Paddle checkout form (audio on to listen) =)
