Them: What's the standard for this? Me: This Them: I don't like the standard, can we change it? Me: For what? Them: For this custom thing Me: We dont have a standard for that custom thing Them: Then what should be standard for this custom thing? Me: Its custom, go talk to who made it! #designsystems

Im calling it. It's officially cider season! 🍎

Here here! If there's anything 25 years of coding CSS has taught me is that the road to the present is filled with ways to write CSS that no longer exist and have died off. Regular ol' CSS is a constant that will always work, and will always be the most valuable skill. Hell, it's never been better.

I know tailwind already gets so much flak, but here's some more... It's failing our young developers. They're not actually learning CSS. CSS is transferable. Tailwind is not. This is my hill.

How do folks handle education around the topic of truncation? I find this is the fallback for designers who want "prettier" layouts and engineers implementing "responsive" design. How do you show them how terrible the UX of it is? Or force them to think through how users access the full content?

Hi 👋 Finally joined Bluesky! I know some of the design systems folks are here. Would love to connect and swap ideas. #designsystems

My pull requests these days

I'm struggling not to squish!

Contribution in design systems is mostly people applying a go faster stripe to their own car and then asking Honda to include it as standard.

I'm hiring, again! I'm looking for a strong (senior+) design-engineer (full 50/50 split) to join our design system team. Come bring the craft back to UI design!

Lol. Take that AI!

CSS mixins & functions are coming! And the best way to prepare is by re-visiting CSS variables. Don’t let the Guaranteed Invalid value & Invalid at Computed Value Time behavior trip you up. Watch my CSS Day talk, or book a workshop to go in depth with modern #CSS! www.oddbird.net/talks/mixins/

I didn't *mean* to take this pretty of a picture of a beetle. But look at this pretty picture of a beetle!

I'm realizing just how important it is for design systems to be in the same meetings with product leadership. Our goals need to align with company goals. Otherwise, we may be fighting against each other unintentionally.

No, AI will not make me a faster coder. It, too, has no clue what our linter rules are!

#Disabled folks, particular people who use assistive technology for web browsing, how do you feel #accessibility has been improving or not over the last few years? This is for a talk I want to write about the actual impact of accessibility regulations and compliance. Boosts and thoughts welcome!

You'd get lost all the time. But then you'd actually learn the area, so next time, you'd remember and wouldn't need directions.

Ok Figma, I know i give you a lot of flack, but holy cow, is AI image search the bees knees! I had about 15 screenshots from 30 designers spread across an ungodly amount of files. It found each actual design frame in seconds. So, yes, I humbly say thank you.

'accessibility is difficult' is a shitty blanket statement. 'accessibility is made way more difficult by using shit frameworks and ui libraries with inaccessibility baked in' is not. if you're sacrificing semantic html for div soup you're gonna have a shit time no matter what.

We hit 700 videos on designsystems.media today! 🥳

Had a lot of fun recreating a UI, while learning more about clip-path and doing bad things with Grid Blogged about it www.dandenney.com/posts/front-... But if words aren't your thing, here's just a pen codepen.io/dandenney/pe...

We’re hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer for our Design Systems team! Location: New Zealand (Hybrid/Remote). Help shape the future of Xero, building scalable and accessible UI components to improve life for small businesses and accountants. jobs.lever.co/xero/bc60245...

Need something to listen to on route to Config? How about this new episode of Complementary with special guest Alex Krasikov where we discuss design engineering! open.spotify.com/episode/24oA...

I wrote about design system documentation. It may be one of, if not the most important thing a team can do–as long as the documentation is good. pjonori.blog/posts/design...

It’s a pretty cool place! Though honestly I do find it a bit depressing how much of the community is still primarily on Twitter. Not in a judgy way. I stayed there for a super long time too. But in a “if everyone left we’d all be better off” way. Collective action problems are the worst.

@figma.com Just because I was given a Dev Mode link, doesn't mean I want to forever be subscribed to Dev Mode updates for that file 🙏

Don't get me wrong. Everyone should absolutely get paid! But... these prices for online courses & conferences are so high. It feels more like gatekepping. If prices were lower, don't you think more people would be able to afford and therefore more would be sold and make the same, if not more profit?

I strongly do not recommend designing an obituary site for a friend that just passed. This shit is fucked.

Just an absolute firehose of new(ish) CSS techniques from @nerdy.dev at Smashing's Meets. I will not remember all of it. But excited to start experimenting!

If you don't take down production *at least* once a month, what are you even doing with your life?

IMHO, AI prototyping tools should be lessening the gap between design and production code, not adding a 3rd potential tool that is *neither*. It just further burdens the design system to keep them all in sync. The primary value for all these tools should always be "Prototype with production quality"

How happy are you with design system tooling at the moment? That's the Question this week and I'm utterly stoked to be joining @bencallahan.com on Thursday to talk about it. But first we need your responses! bit.ly/answerTheQue...

Hold my beer, I'm about to rewrite 3000 lines of React code

23andMe has filed for bankruptcy to sell itself, which means any data they hold about you is going to change hands soon. If you're worried about your privacy don't rush in and delete your account - scramble it first. This way, any residual data they retain after deletion will be useless too 🧵

Let's chat about Android phones. Not your personal preference for a phone. I don't care (seriously I don't. Please don't tell me) but why it's important to give support to Android apps that's comparable to iOS when it comes to accessibility. (1/4(

Please do not develop data tables without accessibility at the forefront because then I have to have 6 am meetings why that isn't cool. Then tell you why even if you don't want to you're gonna have to refactor your code.

My family text chain is now just full of "Flying to (city), love you all!" messages. And I hate that for us.

Alt text is extremely important right now as you organize. Please prioritize it at the minimum to ensure your information is being distributed properly. If you need help, I will help you as best as I can.

I didn't start joining til later in series, but I'm so excited to soak in this content. Design systems nerds! Check it out!

Hey @bsky.app, found a bug with the new video "stream?" on Android, where clicking to quote post won't stop the video or even let you stop the video

Kudos to Heydon's fresh briefs!

*Runs to rip out hacks* Huge! Thank you!

Got some news coming about the designsystems.wtf blog, and it's going to require input from the #DesignSystems community. Keep an eye out 🧡

220+ Illustrations for Your Design Systems and Docs - illustrations.saas-ui.dev

Next level achieved!

Your workload should be accomplish-able in 40 hours per week. If not, you probably have too many unproductive meetings or too much work.

👋 Hi! New manager here. When building up a new team, what are some folks' rituals / must do's?

Happy Monday folks, I'm happy to share the re-launch of my Design for Developers website ✨ designfordevelopersbook.com This is meant to be a resource beyond the book. I'll be covering things like: - CSS properties that improve UX or make visual design easier - Tips & Tricks - And much more :)

Wonderful design system expert and incredible human Elyse Holladay (who’s not on Bluesky) had to evacuate her LA home this week. She is safe, and being the kind and caring person she is, she’s fundraising to feed displaced people. Read her message below and please consider donating!

I was evacuated during the San Diego fires in 2007, and if you’ve been ordered to evacuate, just know that renters or home insurance can help cover some of the costs. Back then, our renters insurance covered meals, hotels, and even gave us a $1,500 clothing allowance.