Always bet on Sophia Wilson. #USWNT

Plantains foster

This is the best way to describe how I feel about AI and software development: I love a good puzzle. One day someone says "Hey! Use this AutoPuzzler™. It will sort all the pieces for you, and you'll finish the puzzle in seconds! It's great! You'll save so much time! You can puzzle so much more!"

Design token tooling has improved a lot. Keeping track of tokens is still very hard.

It would be fun to do a design system x cocktail workshop. For example, this drink is not a traditional Paloma. It uses many of the same elements, but they are composed differently. Understanding the spec informs how you can make adjustments while maintaining alignment.

ARSENAL! 🔴⚪️

She is supposedly 75% poodle \ 25% retriever. But I think there’s like 10% otter in there somewhere. 🦦

The Pope has greater AI understanding and leadership than most tech execs who have done nothing but chase relevance and market share over the last few years. You’d expect a new startup challenger to be their rival. Must be humbling to be outclassed by a 2000 year old institution. 😂 Thanks, Leo. 🙏

Glad to have a long weekend to reset. Made some lemon sorbet and gelato. 🍨

Cosign this. I'm a firm believer that time is an ingredient, not an obstacle. Moving too quickly means you're missing a key ingredient, and the end result will often reflect that.

If you're introducing change faster than your ecosystem can absorb and adapt to it, you're not evolving systems; you're creating fragmentation and thrash. Design systems are engines for evolution, but they are also stabilizers that hold product ecosystems together.

ARSENAL WIN THE LEAGUE!!! 🔴⚪

Hey. Book some time off. Especially if you have “unlimited” PTO.

I’d like GitHub tools to automatically flag and throttle accounts that create lots of AI-generated issues on open source repos. Right now I’m just blocking as spam. I’m curious to know how other folks are managing this?

We went to our first Denver Summit match, and the vibes were excellent. • a decisive win for the Summit • Marta, Banda, Heath, & Press IRL • a double rainbow on Pride night I don’t know what else you could ask for. 12/10 would highly recommend. #SummitUp #EvergreenSky #NWSL #DENvORL

It’s been a week. I’m making cocktails. Swing by and I’ll pour you one too. Cheers, friends.

I need to ask the HOA if they allow GOATs in my yard.

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

The weather was really nice today , so I set up the hammock. Then the doodle decided to hop in with me.

I'm preemptively booking time off now. 🏖️

If we could stop with the zero-day Linux kernel exploits, that would be great. Thank you.

Asking for a friend… 👀 Anyone hiring for a Design Systems / Frontend Engineer right now? Strong in React, Typescript, AI, accessibility, and building scalable component libraries + developer platforms (8+ years). Would love to connect 🙏 #DesignSystems #Frontend

If you‘re ever looking for an icon designer, hire Griff. His work speaks for itself. He’s the icon GOAT and a delight to work alongside. griffdesigns.com www.linkedin.com/in/grifflecu...

We released Canvas v15 today, which is a huge step forward for our design system. The iconography evolution is probably the part I’m most proud of. our designers worked with Griff L’Ecuyer to redesign 1000+ icons, and they are ✨ gorgeous. ✨ canvas.workday.com/styles/asset...

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Amazing through ball from Trin, and that finish from Rose was :chefs-kiss: #USWNT #USAvsJPN

It’s impossible to not love Naomi Girma. What a legend. #USWNT #USAvsJPN

It’s easy to get lost in the details of the design system or too focused on all the inconsistencies across products. But then I look at the data and remember the impact we have. Since Monday, we’ve had 27M+ Canvas primary button clicks In production. That feels good.

It would be nice if Slack had native crosspost / retweet / quote tweet functionality. It would save me a lot of hassle having to write “Crossposting for visibility“ to get comms out.

I'm having trouble finding examples of this, but I'm curious how to name design tokens with negative values. 🤔 Most tokens use 000 to 999. But for tokens such as letter-spacing, you probably want tokens that are negative and positive with 0 in the middle. e.g. 0.01, 0, -0.01, -0.02, -0.03, -0.04

Denver is 1000+ mi (1600+ km) from any ocean, so I’m taking every opportunity to eat seafood this week, and it’s awesome.

A much needed break.

Here’s to 39.

Design system folks who have worked on density systems: My gut feeling is that density is something you'd want to control at the component level, not the token level. Am I right? For example, you would adjust the space tokens within the context of a menu component, but not the space tokens overall.

I like beating Chelsea very much. Good match. 😊

Hugs to folks at Block. 🫂

triangoli di spinaci

It’s increasingly difficult for me to justify the cost of having design system engineering docs in an external site all in the name of having a “single-source of truth.” “Docs in your workspace” has always been the goal, and IDEs are making huge advances to provide a better overall experience.

Tonight’s pasta

There was so much celebration in that halftime show — even a wedding (what?!?) Even if you didn’t understand the words, you could feel the joy. And in the midst of so much darkness and despair, that joy is what we’re fighting for. That’s what gets us through this.

The audacity of a design system is believing you can gain enough momentum and leverage to meaningfully move an ecosystem that dwarfs your small, scrappy team. And then continue do it over and over again. We're either eternal optimists or completely mad. Maybe both.

HugOps to the GitHub Actions folks. 🫂

We have been so busy with this design system refresh and we still have a long way to go. We are updating everything about our design system: color, type, icons, space, shape, shadows, and motion. We’re supporting web, iOS, and Android at enterprise scale: hundreds of teams and millions of users.

If we ever get dark mode across all of Workday, we’re calling it Worknight. Mark my words. 🌙

It would be helpful to have a mechanism for design system maintainers to do “tours of service” where they are embedded with product teams for a bit. Feels like it would build empathy for product teams and also help teams use the system better. I think USDS used to have something like that.

It’s really easy to get lost in the weeds with design token updates, so yesterday i started using Observable to get a better feel of the overall structural changes we’re making as we work through our next major version of tokens. observablehq.com/d/02acae47b1...

It would be nice to have a hotline where you could report heinous design crimes. No one has to listen on the other end, I'd just like to vent.

I'll feel better when we get through this phase of every interface showing a popup to tell me how I can use a new AI feature I don't need to complete a task I'm not doing.

The hardest problem in design systems is whatever problem I was just working on.

Late night patisserie.