Design systems don't scale by locking things down—they scale by opening them up. I wrote a piece for Zeroheight on why composability wins over inheritance when it comes to building systems that actually work for teams. Instead of bloated libraries and endless one-offs, composability lets you: Mix

As I look to progress in my career one thing that I’ve had to grapple with over the last few months is the idea that I’d no longer be the one with the hands on the wheel of our design systems. Focusing on larger Design Operations and product leadership initiatives means I’m going to have less time t

Over the past few weeks, I've been collaborating with a product team to create an interface for state and academic standards. The primary idea is that a user could select the standards document they want to view and then browse or filter the records for a specific standard. They could then view all

This past week I got enticed into and pulled down a web design rabbit hole. Chris Coyier wrote on FrontendMasters back in mid February about part 2 of Jim Nielsen’s The Case for Design Engineers. The post Chris links to is a great argument for why we need people who can "bridge the gap" be

This past week I spent some time exploring using Starlight as a potential replatform for our design system documentation. The major reason I was drawn to starlight is that because it’s built atop Astro, it has support for all of the major players in the UI framework market. Our current system is bui

This past week Knapsack held a session with Nathan Curtis all about managing change in a design system. I took some notes on things I thought were interesting, figured it be worth sharing them here as well. How do I make this [Design Systems] a priority for my organization? Hitching your Wagon Often

I've recently started listening to the Systems of Harm podcast by Amy Hupe. It's a short (6 episodes) series of podcasts discussing design systems and probing into how in addition to speeding up the design process they can also accelerate and perpetuate systemic harm. Of particular interest to myse

Over the winter break from work I picked up a new game on Steam called Against the Storm. Against the Storm is a rogue-lite city-builder/management sim. Like many other city-builder or management sim games the goal of any specific “game” or “round” is to complete objectives and create a thriving set

It's been about 3 years since I moved this site over to 11ty (Eleventy), and it's been a great ride. I still think 11ty is a fantastic static site generator, but I wanted to try out some new front-end frameworks and I feel like a personal website is always the playground to learn new things. The two