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.

Enjoy advanced features like string & numeric tokens, math operations, and more—made in collaboration with Tokens Studio by Hyma.

How to make the most out of Figma's variables feature.

Free illustrations for your design system documentation. Enhance your UI with high-quality, customizable illustrations.

Pretty valuable resource if you dodge all the ads: the fourth edition of the report showcases the current state of Design Systems in 2025.

VV turns complex variable relationships into an intuitive visual map, letting you see and manage all your variables in one infinite canvas.

Defining terms for design tokens.