Building a design system for a team of one
Design systems get talked about as a big-team luxury, but the truth is they pay off fastest when you are working alone. Here is how I build a lightweight system at the start of every client project.
Writing on product design, front-end engineering, and the craft of building for the web.
All of my long-form thoughts on design systems, accessibility, performance, and the overlap between design and code, collected in chronological order.
Animations that respect your users
Motion is one of the easiest ways to make an interface feel polished, and one of the easiest ways to make it feel broken. A few principles I keep coming back to for animating the web responsibly.
The case for the design engineer
The handoff between design and engineering is where most products quietly lose their polish. After years on both sides of it, I am convinced the handoff is the problem — not the people doing it.