So @figma.com Figma Make AI can't access your Figma file directly OR use any Code Connect mapping? I'm really disappointed the input in Figma Make is limited to text/image. Seems bonkers we can't provide a direct link to a page/selection/node like we can in Figma MCP. Hope this is on the roadmap

Time is almost up! Happy Monday, system nerds. You have until Wed at Noon EST to answer The Core Sample (an industry-wide, #designsystem pulse survey). I want to hear how you're doing. 💚 We'll unpack it at The Redwoods Quarterly, but we need your help to make it happen. bit.ly/TheCoreSampl...

Experimenting with Notebook LLM, pasted a JSON snippet of some #designtoken data and the generated source name surprised me: "Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the US Economy" Google AI must be a bit preoccupied with other conversations 🤷‍♂️

This is a phenomenal resource for any #designsystem folks out there. So many brilliant talks and podcasts available here! Bookmark this one for sure. Well done, team!

Massive update for designsystems.media, now with podcasts! 🎧 1000+ design systems videos and podcasts, indexed with topics and speakers

Series 2 of Systems of Harm… things are happening 👀 If you have no idea what I’m talking about, series 1 is still available to listen to on all the main podcasting platforms. I talked to 6 brilliant guests about how design systems fit into wider systemic harm. open.spotify.com/show/5qXmICc...

We hit 700 videos on designsystems.media today! 🥳

Gutted @mozilla.org shutting down pocket.com - one of the main reasons I just bought a new Kobo 😞 www.theverge.com/news/672924/...

Faux news: Google Meet is rolling out "Emotion Recognition" overlays, only available for People Leaders at this stage

We're hiring a Design Technologist at Xero.com to supercharge our prototyping capabilities and bring ideas to life through expert front-end and design skills. If this sounds like your kind of role, check it out! Locations: New Zealand, Australia Type: Onsite, Hybrid, Remote Links in thread 🧵

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...

Shout out to @zeroheight.com for sponsoring DesignSystems.media 🙌🔥

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...

I like this new Chrome update, letting me know how long I've left these tabs open. I'm usually hitting triple digits with tabs on mobile 😅

FWIW - I'm am very excited about Code Connects potential... BUT (giant, enormous but) I am really conscious that it is very brittle 🌶️ 🧵

I'm not a rabbit expert, but that is definitely the BACK of a rabbit in this colouring competition 🐰🤣 Local business throwing a real bunny curve ball at the kids this Easter 🖍️

another issue of the Design Systems News curated newsletter is in the hopper. If you're wanting a (almost) weekly newsletter of some of the best links to articles, tutorials, tools, examples, and more then you can sign up here: news.design.systems 🙏🖤 #DesignSystems #WebDev #WebDesign

@donnie.damato.design getting fired up for his next #designsystem blog post 🔥

Delivering tokens to production, one way or another 😏

📣📣 Important updates from Design Systems Community Chapter New Zealand 🚀 We have moved to a new community platform Join us on Guild guild.host/dscc_nzl 🪦 We are closing the DSCC NZ group on meetup (tl;dr too expensive) 📆 Next DSCC NZ event planned for 9 May (12-1pm) More info coming out soon!

PSA: Figma measurements and annotations are for _paid seats only_ 💰 It's great to see new features arriving so frequently, but do check your developers have paid seats _before_ you get excited to use this particular feature. help.figma.com/hc/en-us/art...

I physically twitch every time someone says they want to bring users “delight.” Like Steve this is accounting software, no one is delighted to be here

Our hearts ache for everyone impacted by the LA wildfires. Design systems extraordinaire Elyse Holladay set up a fund to help feed displaced people. Consider making a donation! We're donating $50 of every preorder of our design tokens course to the cause. More info: bradfrost.com/blog/post/do...

Reminding you all that aria-label overwrites. <span aria-label="Price">€30</span> This changes the accessible name to "Price". It does not concatenate.

The next release is still a few weeks out but we couldn't wait to show this off. Our astigmatism simulators are getting an amazing upgrade, courtesy of some wild CSS magic by Cubiq.dev and it looks amazing 😍

AMA I just used the Slice tool in Figma

Holy s%&t, eBay DS team have knocked their doc site out of the park! I keep finding new things to enjoy, the color pairing tool is 🔥 Nailed the brief, clearly communicated guidance with lashings of fun and creativity at every turn. Bravo, you've raised the bar. Docs don't have to be dull! 👏👏

The Onion just bought Infowars! Parody news site buys Fake news site, this is delicious 🤣🧅 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...

Friday afternoon game with the team, our list now includes a deathmatch in Quake 3 Arena (free, browser-based) 🔫 openarena.live

Converge 2024 design system talks are now available: zeroheight.com/events/conve... #designsystem #designsystems

New update to Figma Analytics CSV Export extension v1.1 🚀 ✅ Fix export issue after UI changes. ✅ Improved file naming for Org Libraries Just hit 670 users! 🤯🎉 #Figma #DesignSystems

If you love RSS - I've just updated my .xml file of all the feeds I subscribe to (using feedbin) Here's the GitHub repo: github.com/sturobson/my... 🙏🖤 #RSS #WebDev #FrontEnd #DesignSystems

call me ratatouille the way i am using this skinny man's strange body to cook in heretofore inconceivable ways

Me (audibly interrupting my own autopilot): "No. F$*# you, Twitter. I'll post this/DM them on BlueSky instead." Trying to break a 10yr habit is hard.. 🦋

📣 Shout out to yuanqinglim for all his Figma plugins! Add `Insert Big Image` to your toolkit: www.figma.com/community/pl... Figma quietly downsizes images larger than 4096px in width/height. With the plugin you can import at full resolution (and even 2x them!)🔥 👏 Thank you!👏

I’ve put together a little Design Systems folks starter pack for y’all. 🙏🖤 go.bsky.app/MR3D82R

Making a #DesignSystems Starter Pack 👍🏻

Products with`.new` domains is one of those awesome little shortcuts I just take for granted now. Here is a mega list of domain shortcuts: whats.new/shortcuts/ Some favourites i know and use: docs.new confluence.new sheets.new figma.new github.new pen.new What ones do you use?

📣I’m looking for new clients. I’m looking for contract or consultancy work (outside IR35 only), doing one of the following: - content design - design systems documentation - content design coaching or consultancy - design systems coaching or consultancy - design systems management 1/2

Export your Figma library analytics to CSV 📄 Resharing for anyone who missed this last year, reduce manual effort with your design system figma library reporting 🤙 #figma #designsystems #designsystem

Finally hit the designsystems.media backlog, sitting at 538 videos now. Let me know if there are any other videos to include 🤙 #designsystems

Excited to announce Design System Events calendar is now live! ds.events 🚀 🗓️ Discover the best events around the world, and easily stay up to date by subscribing to the iCalendar and RSS feeds. Release announcement: x.com/donniedamato... #design #designsystems

Launched another little side project: 🧰 toolkit.design Working my way through categorising and tagging 8+ years of design-related bookmarks. Figured there might be some interesting resources for others, so making it public

Similar to approaches taken by search engines, you can now tell OpenAI not to use your site content in its AI models https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

78 more sites added to http://designsystems.directory, 220+ design systems being indexed. Full list of sites here, let me know others to include: https://designsystems.directory/sites/

I just posted a new contract role on our design system team. Which on the surface is awesome, but it's also heart-breaking as *so many people* are reaching out with interest in the job. Many of whom have been looking for a new gig for months. All this need for employment. And I have one open role.

Meta turned over their DMs, used as evidence to convict them on felony charges for accessing criminalized healthcare. Meta had the data so had to hand it over. End to end encryption keeps people safe. https://jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-pleads-guilty-to-giving-abortion-pills-to-1850621217

My favourite shot from last week's shelter dog photoshoot. A surprise squeaker can get you some really funny looks!

Blue sky feed for #DesignSystems, thanks @dominik-wilkowski.com 👏

It's perfect.