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“Bias in Design Systems” by @bencallahan

🔗 bencallahan.com/bias-in-design

> Your design system is an idea. Every asset you build will require compromise of some kind. […] You have to think of your design system as a concept that is made tangible through the assets and tooling your org needs at a given moment in time. But those tools and frameworks come and go. Your design system needs to remain.

#DesignSystem

⚓nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2025/

I’ve noticed that an interesting language thing from our designers. Rather than referring to #DesignSystem components “in Figma” versus “in code” or “web implementation”, they say “in Storybook”, as if Storybook is where/how the components exist.

Exciting news 📣

I've just released 2 new dates for my Writing #DesignSystem documentation training:

- 1:30-5pm UK time, 23 May: bit.ly/4lpG9Z2
- 9am-12:30pm UK time, 29 May: bit.ly/4j2rW2D

A half-day course that will teach you how to plan, write and test docs that users will actually read.

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EventbriteWriting design systems documentationWriting design systems documentation is a hands-on, half-day course on how to write documentation that people can find, understand and use.

Been building a Card component for our #DesignSystem. Trickier than you might think.

To make the card surface clickable, it uses an approach from @heydon 's excellent inclusive-components.design/ca post, albeit wrapped up as a #WebComponent that progressively enhances a link/button in the card's content.

Also taking cues from @nathanacurtis sub components post medium.com/eightshapes-llc/sub and giving our consumers a suite of building blocks to assemble whatever specialsed card variations they need.

Inclusive Components · CardsSome of the components I've explored here have specific standardized requirements in order to work as expected. Tab interfaces, for example, have a prescribed structure and a set of interaction behaviors as mandated by the WAI-ARIA specification. It's at your discretion how closely you follow these requirements. Research may show
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@stuffbreaker Is this a "Hot Take"? I thought this was _just the facts_. ™️

If there is a developer between you and an end user your user is the developer. Make their job easier, bring #a11y to the surface, bring #performance to the surface, bring #usability to the surface by making it such that what is easy is what is right and what is right will serve their use (maybe the end user) in was that they would likely not have done without your #designSystem.

Migrated a couple more old Medium posts to my personal website: #DesignSystem Architecture cirrus.twiddles.com/blog/2017/ and its TL;DR version.

Hard to believe its almost 8 years old! (Have I really been obsessing over design systems for that long?!)

This was one of my most read posts: 11.3k views.

4 more blog posts to go before all my Medium stuff has been migrated.

cirrus.twiddles.comDesign System Architecture (full-fat version)Identifying common categories of tools and integrations between them in design systems