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Interesting two phenomenon at the conference this week: * Millennial presenters reflecting that they are “old” now * Less experienced practitioners referring to how much design systems have changed since they began (implicitly or explicitly) a few years ago

Any other non-climate expert non-meteorologist, watching Milton arriving, now wondering… “This is real. When should we expect the freeze waves shown in Day After Tomorrow?”

What a presenter and emcee look like when dropping design system dad jokes that bomb. "What does the hammer leave for good service? A tooltip." SmashingConf • Vitaly Friedman 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 • Photo credit: Mark Thiele

I’m researching interactive states. Would you recommend other design systems with a published Figma kit (ideally in the Figma community) with Text input components that provide interesting takes on architecting interactive and configurable states. I’ve got 10 audited so far…

Why do instructions have to trigger memories of an unforgettable movie climax? 😭 #BradPitt

Working on the logic to annotate AUTO horizontal and vertical spacing as output from the EightShapes Specs Figma plugin. Getting close! :)

Sara Brunettini If you want to go deep and learn hands-on + real world examples. We still have spots left for our upcoming online workshop with Nathan A Curtis intodesignsystems.lemonsqueezy.com/buy/d6c9811f-a…

With subscriptions increasing, I've been adding small enhancements from my customers to the Specs Figma plugin today... – Display color in HSLA – Annotate horz, vertical spacing set to AUTO – Detect custom Specs text styles hidden from publishing (by `.`) specsplugin.com

Whether I am doing it wrong (upon opening, it showed this) OR a middle tab is indeed now the default, I am utterly disoriented. WTH The New York Times iOS app Home section? Have I ever seen this in IA history?

Deep arguments at bar trivia triggered by my chart of Madonna quality ‘82-‘92. I am circles: Like a Prayer and Vogue was the ultimate.

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In design tokens, don’t do what airlines do when creating scales: boarding group 1 (and 2, 3, …) preceded by what ends up a potpourri of other “pre” classes of various types ordered quizzically.

Managing Design Systems with Many Core Libraries: How to collaborate, align and synchronize production of many libraries that offer the same core UI components My latest on @medium medium.com/@nathanacurtis…

Gotta love SmashingConf Antwerp, bringing a fun and festive atmosphere to design and tech conferences.

In this article buff.ly/39sAv2i Nathan A Curtis argues that #designSystems need more steps & rigor to achieve the higher quality and engagement they promise. That is why they take longer to build features than product teams, and that is a good thing.

So I am really starting to sense... is design systems Twitter/X really dying out? Is now the time we've reached critical lack of mass?

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Yeah, OK, maybe I will. My specs plugin is pretty much shovel-ready to integrate this easily so that (a) you don't have to otherwise build your own plugin to do it and (b) it's already intelligent enough to only annotate and *difference* the attributes that matter.

Why in the world can you only set node.annotations via a plugin with dev mode enabled? I could easily add annotations via my existing design-mode Specs plugin, putting the right specs in the right places to tell the precise stories developers want to see, but can't.