Confessions from a design team of one
Sam I am Designs \ud83e\udef6 \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6Sharing the things I've learned about design tools, design tokens, and staying sane as a design team of one.
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Design Tokens aren’t enough. Architecture Decisions need a place in your Design System.
Hi Designer 👋 Sam I am here.
It’s confession time. I used to believe that Design Tokens were all I needed to document my design decisions. Until I was working with a new client and had one of those classic WTF design-system moments,...
Bridging the Gap, One Token at a Time - Smashing Conference Talk
Confession time, there are few things more terrifying than being asked to give the closing talk a web development conference as a systems designer who doesn't code. But when Vitaly Friedman and the Smashing team sent me the invitation for t...
Ghost Variables in Figma
Hi Designer 👋
Sam I am here 🫶
Confession time. I don't love scary movies, but I love a design system horror story. There's something about listening to how other people overcome their struggles that makes me feel less alone.
It's spook...
Confessions from a Design Team of One - Episode 2
Thank you for subscribing! Here’s a recap of my confessions this month so you can choose if you want to dig in a little deeper. 🫶
← Back to Episode 2 (Confessions 1-4)
#5 I spent a year loving to hate Tailwind CSS so you don’t have to...
I spent a year loving to hate Tailwind CSS so you don't have to.
The Tailwind CSS challenge
If you’ve ever told another designer you are on a team building with Tailwind CSS and had them say, “I’m so sorry,” you know what I’m talking about.
Tailwind is… weird.
Their tagline is “build anything,” t...
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Empowering designers to master Future Friendly Design. \ud83d\ude80 I'm a Freelance Design Systems Lead with a design tokens obsession and 8 years of experience helping businesses scale their design-to-development workflows using systems thinking. \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Toronto
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