Daniel de Wit

UX Engineer, illustrator, designer

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@candiwrites Seriously questioning if this is true since I just cannot believe anyone could be this evil.

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@Amy_Hupe Thanks for writing this blog, it's great analysis and a reminder to be constructive. People will only learn more about design systems and spend more time on meaningful work when knowledge is shared.

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@brad_frost What do we have more of in the world? Doors or wheels?

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@Amy_Hupe I remember not even calling it a design system for a whole year. Standardisation was the magic word.

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@dennismons @_balte kan beter toch?

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@Amy_Hupe For what it's worth, I agree with you on setting goals and slowly changing existing systems. I just don't think we should not call that building or use any excuses to get away from the building part. Agreed to disagree.

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@worddoodles_EP Anything which is not sold to clients, but still required to do the selling. Anything else is organizational overhead.

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@Amy_Hupe 'cultivating design systems' sounds an awful lot like 'mocking around'. A design system needs to be built just like any other product, so I would rather have fun helping people build instead of 'cultivating'.

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@Amy_Hupe My point is, let's not stress so much over whether we use the right terminology, just do the work together with the people who are actually building the system.

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@Amy_Hupe Let's go back to designers designing systems and developers building systems. Designers spend way too much time in their own tools when they could be talking to developers.

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@zeroheight @storybookjs Also, why do you want to know this in relation to design system documentation?

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@zeroheight @storybookjs all the way.

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@disco_lu @horse_designsys What's your take on this then? Engineers used variables for style properties way before design tokens got popularized. I don't really understand why designers need that separation, honestly. It would be nice if devs and designers could just speak the same language.

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@chrtzvonbrtz @DamsTweets Imagine hearing a knock on your door one day. "We know your font choices, bastard! You can't hide it anymore, show us the comic sans!"

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@zeroheight UI library 🤷

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@Mappletons I am surprised that no one mentioned web components yet.

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@chadloder My first thought would be that email should be a government provided service. Since Google can't make money from unhoused people. But governments have even more strict security policies and are often not very pro-unhoused. Is charity the only option here?

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@Amy_Hupe How can I both take your point and fly past it? I should either hit or miss :) I'm honestly just looking forward to learn more, and see others learn more about design systems.