collected writings
Essays on design systems, design tokens, and the semantic decisions underneath them.
The Default Is Not a Design Decision
How the design industry built the infrastructure of sameness, and called it best practice
The Language We Never Agreed On
Ten years of design tokens, several competing formats, and the shared language that never arrived
Motion Deserves Better Than a Prop
What we lost when animation became a component and time stopped mattering
Where the Design System Thinks
On semantics, intent, and the layer that actually holds the decisions
Accessibility Was Never a Feature
On contrast, focus, and the requirements a design system inherits