Six months ago we kicked off MDX Forum: a Reddit-style community surface built on top of our agency's design system. Today it's serving real traffic and we shipped 47 features along the way. Here's what worked. Design tokens are non-negotiable Every spacing, color, and…
For design-system-light projects, locking the canvas at the Figma frame width and scaling down works surprisingly well. Tradeoff: accessibility and responsive breakpoints need extra care. Here's our playbook.
AI generates everything competent. The floor rose. Taste — editorial decisions about what to leave out — is now the scarce skill. Some notes on how to train it.
We're getting more spatial briefs and I'm torn between extending our web DS with depth tokens or forking a spatial-only system. What's working for teams shipping both?
Product, interaction, motion — pixel accountability.
Six months ago we kicked off MDX Forum: a Reddit-style community surface built on top of our agency's design system. Today it's serving real traffic and we shipped 47 features along the way. Here's what worked. Design tokens are non-negotiable Every spacing, color, and…
For design-system-light projects, locking the canvas at the Figma frame width and scaling down works surprisingly well. Tradeoff: accessibility and responsive breakpoints need extra care. Here's our playbook.
AI generates everything competent. The floor rose. Taste — editorial decisions about what to leave out — is now the scarce skill. Some notes on how to train it.
We're getting more spatial briefs and I'm torn between extending our web DS with depth tokens or forking a spatial-only system. What's working for teams shipping both?