Tasos Dervenagas

Designer. Building

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

When I struggle to structure my thoughts about what's happening I turn to writing. Today about the recent US Anthropic ban news, what it says about power and dependency, and what it should mean for Europeans and citizens of the world. It's a long one. https://t.co/6dpw0QOQeO

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

Thanks @figpluginweekly for featuring Color Scales I/O 🥰

[Figma Plugin Weekly @figpluginweekly]

Color scale, flowchart and GIF makers - among the 5 new plugins this week ⚡️

🎨 Color Scales I/O
🤖 FigClaw
💟 IconPark by @sadiksajid
🎥 Magic GIF Exporter
🔀 Swimlane Generator

Give them a try! 👉 https://t.co/yb3WmShzOr

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

@rogie If it’s not blocking you (it shouldn’t), move to the next related task. Then revisit

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

@henry_daggett In short: not what a designer would put together 🙃

But you can still get a good starting point: a comprehensive inventory of available components, tokens etc.

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

@Abmankendrick Good stuff. Been deep in OKLCH and colour spaces for a Figma plugin I built: https://t.co/YtNLo0buZs

Perfect companion to these tools for turning those picks into production-ready palettes.

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

@stephenhaney Yeah, agree. That’s a visual treatment. I sent you a DM, I can follow up with a fresh link for screen recordings

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

@stephenhaney @writenicecode @paper @figma It doesn't feel very responsive especially when you try to perform small increments. On the other hand, admittedly, it's a matter of habit. I think Figma got it right because they allow pointer to move freely horizontally (which allows more tolerance / affordance)

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

@stephenhaney @writenicecode @paper @figma Had first hand experience and I agree that Paper cuts through noise in many aspects, and is the right tool.

Now, the limitation is feature parity (e.g. SVG editing) and performance (like the input scrubbing, which is not there yet)

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

After 155 internal releases and hundreds of commits, I think I'm quite ready to release my Figma plugin ✌️

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

If you want to poke at it:

https://t.co/vpB3oexPA9

Very much “early adopter” territory, of course. I’m more interested in finding the sharp edges than pretending it’s production ready 🤘

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

Weekend fun: hacking on a nerdy MCP server for design systems

👉systembridge-mcp

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

It covers many different scenarios and bridges realistic designer–developer workflows.

Is it battle-tested? No. But it’s already fun to use on real component sets.

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

This 👇

[Jordan Singer @jsngr]

people like to skip the design process because it remains the truly hard part

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

Thanks for the feature @OnePageLove !
By the way, the entire plugin mockup is interactive 😅

[One Page Love @OnePageLove]

New Website Inspiration:

One Pager taking waitlist requests for the Color Scales I/O @Figma plugin.

Neat touch with the interactive shuffle button, within the preview UI, that applies the shuffled color scheme to the website hero 🎨

Credit: @teyepe

→ https://t.co/HKCtRnIH5i

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

@disco_lu Silly me My point was to balance padding so it hugs text more gracefully on x-axis

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

My plugin has a home, at last.
Generate accessible colour scales directly in Figma that are fully systematic and editable.

Waitlist open: https://t.co/BFa5u05Wdy

[Tasos Dervenagas @teyepe]

Not bad at all 😏