Whenever you find a complex system working in nature, it’s usually the output of a very simple system or thing that was iterated over and over.

By thoughtfully organizing your work, you can help your developer counterparts build more efficiently and accurately.

Typography serves language, not the convenience of a system.

The only design platform with native Design Tokens just got even stronger: Penpot now adds Variants to help you manage your design systems.

How design systems can evolve into living languages, embracing dialects for flexibility and improved user experiences.

How much instability, lack of quality, or impermanence can we tolerate in our tools?

Simple is the opposite of complex, where easy is something that’s familiar to us. Different things. Especially in software.

The idea of tracking deviations makes people nervous. But this can be a powerful tool for design system teams.

AI is certainly shifting our work, but not in the way leadership often assumes (or even wants).

The words "Design System" and "adoption" in a conversation with higher-ups are inevitable.

Get a high-level summary of your component library across all pages, and print it on the canvas with a timestamp for versioning.

Design has become baseline, while innovation now lies in systems, agents, and orchestration.

Drop in at a library, and you’ll likely notice that most shelves aren’t full—librarians leave some empty space on each shelf.

The design system that would one day become the Nike Podium Design System.

A collection of great test components with smooth animations.

Unifying two design system platforms into a single one that can serve all of the feature teams.

Component libraries aren’t design systems until people start caring.

Generate and manage design tokens for your design system.

Discipline bias, product bias, tool bias, and more.

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