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Design Systems Rot. Here Is the Maintenance Plan.
A system is not a launch, it is a garden. Four ways ours quietly decayed, and the unglamorous routine that brought it back.
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Notes on the craft behind software people actually like.
We write down what the work really looks like: the type scale that took four attempts, the critique that stopped bruising people, the four hundred milliseconds hiding in a font file.
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Typography6 min read
The Type Scale That Finally Made Sense
We threw out the ratio and started from the seven jobs type actually does on a page. The scale got smaller and the pages got faster to read.
Imogen Reyes
Process5 min read
Wireframes Are a Conversation, Not a Deliverable
Polish arrives too early and the room stops arguing with the thinking. On fidelity, hard screens first, and why three is better than one.
Nadia Okonkwo
Engineering7 min read
Shaving 400ms Off Every Page We Ship
The median looked fine, which is exactly why we missed it. Where the time actually went, in the order we found it.
Theo MarchettiWhat we keep coming back to
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