Writings

The importance of reviewing expectations and providing small incremental ways to adopt your design system

This blog is now solely owned by me, David Darnes, your friendly neighborhood Design Systems person

Now is a great time to join Bluesky if you're looking for likeminded folks to learn and share about design systems

There's an abundance of lexicon in design systems, for better or worse, so it's nice to see the community sharing definitions

Are we thinking considerately enough when introducing dependencies into our company's design and development workflows?

What if the only way to prompt design system discussion is to do a bad job to begin with?

An open-source checklist to help you plan, build, and grow your design system.

A guide on Style Dictionary, Design Tokens Community Group Spec, and a few things in between.