Around 6% of the population has dyscalculia, affecting their ability to do tasks like tell the time, deal with financial matters, and transpose reference numbers.
It makes absolutely no sense that #DesignSystems and #FrontendFrameworks like #TailwindCSS have decided to have darker colors be higher numbers, since computer screens are an additive color system where the more color you add the brighter things get.
🔥 CSS hot take: I'm beginning to think any design system that defines style values via anything other than CSS variables — ex: Sass, JavaScript, TypeScript — is essentially doing it wrong.
I am of the opinion that publishing a standalone file with all the CSS variables used in a project is probably the most widely compatible future-facing approach.
It's a long shot (hi to my 11 followers here 👋😀) but I am looking at existing literature on the topic of "System of systems" (in the specific context of #DesignSystems).
I have already read everything that Google returned me, and searched in Design System News (thanks @sturobson for your relentless work 🙏).
If you have any article, post, podcast, talk, video, anything you think I should read on the topic, can you share it with me? Thx 🙏
PS: boosts (retoots?) for reach are more than welcome 😉
The first episode of my new podcast - #SystemsOfHarm - is now live 🎉
My first guest is the wonderful author, speaker and filmmaker, David Dylan Thomas.
In this episode, we kick off the series with a big ol’ chat about how cognitive bias impacts the design systems we create, and how we can counteract it and to create more inclusive systems.
This week’s episode of #SystemsOfHarm podcast is now live 📣
In this episode I’m chatting to Fred Warburton, Design Systems Manager at Springer Nature, and former #A11y lead at Babylon about design systems and accessibility.
#DesignSystems friends, are there any resources for the approach of keeping CSS in a master / semantic stylesheet(s) vs keeping styles with components?
This is how I always did it until I started working with React devs.
My team is hiring for a senior-level iOS engineer for our iOS implementation of Spectrum. If you are interested in building design systems and/or foundational components I'd love to hear from you.
✏️ Responsive typography and its role in design systems. What I'll be talking about at Patterns Day + 10% off voucher code! https://clagnut.com/blog/2427
If you work on building, maintaining , or creating #DesignSystems, this database is a great reference tool — and it's searchable by component, concept, and of course, #DesignSystem
@cferdinandi I think #WebComponents are a great way to distribute parts of #DesignSystems, especially if you're dealing with varying frameworks and/or working with heavily polluted or legacy codebases.
However I do think that CSS is evolving at such a rate that Web Components will take more of a backseat when distributing design systems. They will still be present but mainly to provide JS behaviour (as they should) while more modern CSS will handle visual consistency
“Is using a pre-built frontend library realistic?”
Hold onto your <header>'s folks as there may be some hot takes from this topic that'll be discussed amongst the zeroheight team in this weeks #DesignSystems WTF.