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Thinking about design systems
Insights on design systems, accessibility, and the future of design-to-development workflows.
Why design handoff is still broken in 2026
The promise of design systems was supposed to fix this. Component libraries, design tokens, Figma-to-code pipelines. And yet the gap persists. Here's why.
March 15, 2026 · 6 min read
The case for W3C standards in your component contracts
Most teams treat accessibility as an audit. Something you check at the end. This is backwards — and expensive. What happens when you put WCAG into the contract itself.
March 18, 2026 · 5 min read
Design tokens are not enough
Design tokens solve the value translation problem. Spacing-md becomes space-4 in Tailwind. But tokens don't tell you how to use values — only what they are. The missing layer.
March 20, 2026 · 4 min read
Bridging Figma, VS Code, and production with a single API
Most design-to-dev tools live in silos. The Figma plugin doesn't know what the linter found. The browser extension doesn't know what the contract says. What a unified audit platform changes.
March 21, 2026 · 7 min read