Short reads, I swear
Things that I wrote
Articles on UX, UI and systemic design
DS failures - All-in on a dedicated team
Part one: having a dedicated team is not enough. It is useful, but without company support, it will fail.
- Oct 18, 2022 - 4 min read
DS failures - Getting satisfied with your communication
Part two: starting with a strong communication is great. Keeping it up is hard, but mandatory.
- Oct 17, 2022 - 4 min read
DS failures - Targeting the wrong champions
Part three: building a DS is asking a lot to many people. Make sure you know who will have the most impact.
- Oct 16, 2022 - 4 min read
DS failures - Making it personal
Part four: likes and dislikes in the workplace are tough. Find your balance or you might make it harder than it needs to be.
- Oct 15, 2022 - 4 min read
Supernova: use design tokens in code, with Figma as a source of truth
Design tokens are powerful in our design tools, but we must reliably launch them into our codebases as well.
- Apr 2, 2022 - 8 min read
Theming: an abstraction for design tokens
Design tokens can carry the load of your theming needs when semantics are involved.
- Nov 10, 2021 - 10 min read
UX Files - The UX of waiting
Everything online requires some patience, but how do we make it part of the experience?
- Jul 10, 2021 - 8 min read
UI debt is part of our technical debt
We often want to rewrite logical code, but our UI as well needs care.
- May 25, 2021 - 8 min read
UX Files - Coding buttons
Buttons are everywhere, and they're surprisingly interesting to code.
- Mar 23, 2021 - 10 min read
UX Files - The UI of buttons
Let's design buttons that work for the patterns we've settled on.
- Mar 1, 2021 - 8 min read
UX Files - The UX of buttons
The web is full of buttons, what shall we make of them?
- Mar 1, 2021 - 6 min read
Is it really a design system?
Diving deep into the definition of the evasive Design System.
- Jan 19, 2021 - 9 min read
UX Files - Coding notification toasts (part 2)
Second part of our deep dive on building Toasts
- Dec 23, 2020 - 9 min read
UX Files - Coding notification toasts
Let's build our notification toast to fit our UX and UI guidelines.
- Dec 23, 2020 - 8 min read
UX Files - The UI of notification toasts
How should a Toast look like if it's going to fulfill its mission.
- Dec 23, 2020 - 12 min read
UX Files - The UX of notification toasts
Checking up on why somebody somewhere might want to use a Toast.
- Dec 23, 2020 - 6 min read