Treat It Like Trash — Let’s Learn Design Systems

Tools like Figma help you create pictures of software. These pictures help provide guidance as we write software, but the pictures themselves end up in the trash after the software is built.



This requires a subtle, but very important, shift in how we think about design systems: the artifacts we create along the path to a shipped product are temporary and disposable.Treat It Like Trash — Let’s Learn Design Systems

Get updates

I started my newsletter back in 2015 and have been sharing my thoughts and reflections on creating better user experiences, running a successful business, and designing products. I'll let you decide if it's any good, but people have stayed since the very beginning.