Marek Lenik

Pretending to be a Lead Engineer. Poorly.

Sidekick to the Wise Design System's engineers.

Master of unfinished projects.

Backpacker and a photographer.

[Marek Lenik @criography]

Embarking on a new adventure as an Engineering Lead for Wise Design System.

Looking forward to all the unknowns, "I don't knows", and generally getting schooled by my team 💚

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

Design Tokens Specification reaches first stable version: a huge milestone for design systems and the design tooling industry.

✅ Vendor-neutral
✅ Modern color support
✅ Theming and multi-brand ready
✅ Backed by design tools and open-source projects

https://t.co/NAJKQ7SKUL

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

The most important thing when you're working with coding agents:

DO NOT DELEGATE YOUR THINKING

Not only will this make for worse code, but the muscle you developed that makes you valuable in society, that you fought so hard to improve, will wither and die.

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@LOFC1881 @ThePetrichoral Hey, do you mind sharing whether there was a break between Syd and Billie? What time did she start?

[Marek Lenik @criography]

Hello design systems friends 👋

We're growing our team at Wise and are looking for a talented mid-weight frontend engineer 🙌

👉 Job description + application: https://t.co/j880hjwrAx

📍The role is London based with a couple of days in the office a week.

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@nathanacurtis It definitely made me feel nostalgic seeing oldskool flash sites. 😂

One of my under-30s team member recently humorously referred to me sharing past experiences as "Marek's war stories" which put things into perspective 😅

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@ChrisDeeBrown In which case: break a mic, or whatever you're supposed to wish to speakers 🤟

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@ajhuxlee Move. Burn the house.

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@RobotTheory Thank you, sir :)

[Marek Lenik @criography]

Embarking on a new adventure as an Engineering Lead for Wise Design System.

Looking forward to all the unknowns, "I don't knows", and generally getting schooled by my team 💚

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@stephendball Luck will be needed. Loads of it. I spent the first 3 hours in London and have been in Budapest since, getting onboarded together with a bunch of scarily smart people across all disciplines from devops to product.

As for the other part, just tell me when you're ready 😬

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@ajhuxlee I need to convince a lot of very smart people I should keep mine first 😅

[Marek Lenik @criography]

As no surprise to anyone, @elliotjaystocks amazes with his latest "Universal Principles of Typography" book. Absolutely loving the details, content, and (obviously) the type setting of the whole thing.

Go get a copy for yourself or your team: https://t.co/8xGn1Dogpq

[Design Systems London @DSLconf]

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🎥Watch the full talk on "Getting started with iOS accessibility": https://t.co/odgnFaBeG8

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#designsystems #designsystemslondon #productdesign #community

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@disco_lu Usually top, so the content is easier to scan in a Z-pattern. I like to think of these icons a drop cap removed from the content body, but still aligned to the beginning of it.

But your audience's preference may vary, as usual 😬

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@hereinthehive Excellent. Looking forward to it, Dan!

[Marek Lenik @criography]

This might be the most amazing ligature glyph in UTF I've ever seen in my whole life.

https://t.co/uakrnb7I5e

[Esther Cheran 🌈 @EstherCheran]

Store your design tokens in W3C DTCG compatible format.
Coming soon to Tokens Studio 🚀

@DesignTokens

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@gerireid @Amy_Hupe great session :) I especially liked your shared, healthy approach to the contentious subjects.

Thank you!

[Marek Lenik @criography]

@gerireid @JustEatTakeaway Boom. Excellent news, Geri :)