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@disco_lu
Working @figma. I write a newsletter, host Design & Whine podcast, do things with @8pxmag. Twitter is where I share ideas about ❖. I eat 🌶️ with everything
As I prepare the next batch of 8px Radio episodes, I've published a readout of my "Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity" (mega) article There are two parts, diving into component advice ❖ 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2HlzXy… 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/spe…
Wrote some thoughts about polarities, and why happiness exists in the space in between, go give it a read kyler.design/posts/on-polar…
Current design philosophy: 1. Throw gradients and blurred shapes at every problem 2. Make the title font as big as possible
V Va Var Vari Varia Variab Variabl Variable Variables You can now search and filter variables 🔦
I'm tinkering away on a new Figma widget for design system auditing ⚙️ It scans your document and tells you: – Number of components – Components without descriptions / doc links – Components without variables / styles – Instances with overrides Hopefully published next week!
Building multi brand design systems? Come and hang on the 23rd July to check out how to build a sophisticated variables system 🎤 events.figma.com/ITFodido/disco…
It's such a privilege to be able to help this talented group of people – the speed at which the team has been able to pull together a brand new primitive is wild 👏
Kudos to many designers involved here in a variety of ways: @attasi @rogie @Haolun_Yang @_joelmllr @miggi @maxvoltar @kellaywho @jooliahan @lslymoon @henryfreedland @disco_lu @daniela_muntyan Marcin The playground file is super fun: figma.com/community/file…
What if your brand was driven by a codebase, instead of it being driven by design 🤔 Tokens json and guidelines md as the starting point and pushed out into: ➡️ Brand guidelines ➡️ Design library ➡️ Coded tokens ➡️ Copywriting rules ➡️ ...everything
Spend more time with non-designers in the business to elevate what you're doing to those that are making the decisions that'll affect what you end up building
What’s one thing you learned on the job early in your design career that you don’t think juniors today are getting and why does that matter?
The perfect travel companion ✈️
Crafting something for our best users and friends.
If everyone is busy making everything how can anyone perfect anything? -- You should probably watch this video from
Just one more browser Just one more browser and I swear I'll be more productive Just one more (plus a slide from a talk I'm working on)
Tinkering away on some new component additions to Simple Design System 🧑🏼🍳
