https://xitter.cf/t.co/j9KjwHtyqF | #BlackLivesMatter | Designer at @chromaui | formerly at @automattic | open sourcerer | @wordpress experience adjuster
Colorado, USA
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How to design in 140 characters or less: Delete everything that isn't important. – at Denver, CO
we really only have those nine phrases and some swatch books
One reason AI sucks at design is because you're bad at telling it what you want
Experienced designers have a thousand shorthands for expressing design in words:
- "set the text tighter/looser", "bump the leading"
- "tighten it up", "let it breathe", "fix the hierarchy"
- "anchor", "rhythm", "negative space"
Feels like a skill waiting to be written here
My team has fixed over 18 THOUSAND #accessibility violations over the last few months in @chromaticcom and we're continuing to make forward progress. SO stoked to see these kinds of results. How did we get so many?
The combination of Accessibility Regression #testing and the Accessibility Dashboard in #Chromatic are a SOLID combo, especially when paired with #Storybook, and I can tell you with confidence that they are continuing to improve. I can't wait to share what we've been cooking up.
In the meantime, here's a blog post introducing some of our tools. These particular projects are a passion of mine and it's been a privilege to design and help build them. Let me know what you think! Thanks!
chromatic.com/blog/accessibi…
Michael Arestad retweeted
Storybook 8.3!
⚡️ First-class Vitest integration to run stories as component tests
🔼 Next.js-Vite framework for Vitest compatibility & better DX
🗜️ Reduced bundle size for a 30% smaller install
🌐 Story globals API to standardize stories for themes, viewports, and locales
👇
ALT In a row, Storybook logo, a handdrawn heart, and the Vitest logo, on a purple-to-pink gradient background.
can't wait to try out @figma ui v3. i have a sneaking suspicion the density of thoughtful "small@ changes that went into it will make a massive improvement in how we produce design
#Config2024 off to a 🔥 start. i never have to sweat layer names or content generation for mocks again
biggest innovation in our industry to date
Don’t name your layers. Let Figma AI do that AND
→ Make your first draft with Make Design
→ Find the exact visual you’re looking for (or something similar) with Visual/Asset Search
→ Turn your designs into a working prototype with Make Prototype
#Config2024
