Had a great time at the SF Design System Leadership Summit. See my notes here: medium.com/@jamescarleton…

DS Leadership Summit

I had the opportunity to attend the Design Systems Leadership Summit by Knapsack in San Francisco. It was a great event with insightful…

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Variables for typography are live! I've published a "starter kit" to the community, with examples 🙌 There are variables for: 1) Font family 2) Font weight 3) Line height 4) Font size figma.com/community/file…

Typography variables starter kit | Figma

Variables set up for you to start playing with them in your design system. I have created an example type ramp, and made variables for: Font familyFont sizeLine heightFont weight Let me know what you think!

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Typography variables in figma 🖤

My hot takes on the Apple Vision Pro and its user experience: medium.com/@jamescarleton…

Visions of the future

So with my extra time after the layoff, I decided to try out the device everyone is talking about, the Apple Vision Pro. This new spatial…

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My new title should be Empathetic Sherpa, hahah. bradfrost.com/blog/post/2024…

2024 Design System Vibes

OUT: Pattern Police IN: Empathic Sherpas OUT: An overstuffed design system libraryIN: A thoughtful, layer-cake design system ecosystem OUT: Unnecessarily verbose documentationIN: Just enough, just-in-time documentation OUT: Single discipline-focused design systemsIN: Cross-disciplinary de

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Can we stop hyping parallax sites like Amie? The visuals are interesting, sure. Don't overlook the intentional exclusion of a wide range of humans.