Your design system has opinions. They're just not being enforced

Why validation is the missing layer between documentation and adoption

Jan 15 • Murphy Trueman

Stop policing your design system

Measure health, not compliance

Jan 6 • Murphy Trueman

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December 2025

When conversation leads: Rethinking design systems for a world where intent comes first

How conversational interaction is changing what design systems are actually for

Dec 29, 2025 • Murphy Trueman

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Component retirement, and the decisions that keep systems alive

How deliberate deprecation protects trust, clarity, and product velocity

Dec 12, 2025 • Murphy Trueman

The timing problem in design systems

How perfectionism kills component adoption faster than bad code

Dec 3, 2025 • Murphy Trueman

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November 2025

Tab Collection: November 2025

A monthly roundup of what I've been reading, building, and thinking about

Nov 27, 2025 • Murphy Trueman

The AI feedback loop: When design systems train the models that critique them

AI is learning from our design systems, and quietly reshaping them in return. Here’s what that feedback loop means for consistency, drift, and control

Nov 18, 2025 • Murphy Trueman

Slots and the control paradox: Why loosening your design system might save it

How Figma's newest feature exposes an uncomfortable truth about the way we've been building systems

Nov 12, 2025 • Murphy Trueman

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October 2025

The bidirectional design system: When code talks back to design

How AI is shifting design systems from one-way handoffs to continuous, two-way sync – and what that means for how we build products

Oct 29, 2025 • Murphy Trueman

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Your tokens have become infrastructure

How to build systems that survive scale, governance, and AI

Oct 23, 2025 • Murphy Trueman

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September 2025

Why design system naming feels impossible

The real problem isn't the name itself – it's the mental overhead

Sep 23, 2025 • Murphy Trueman

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August 2025

We're still terrible at the people parts

Why teams with perfect systems still build around them instead

Aug 14, 2025 • Murphy Trueman

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