What Figma made visible
And whether the next generation of practitioners will get the same thing.
Design leadership6
Building for coherence, not compliance
Lessons from Baldurs Gate 3 on contracts, governance, and judgment at the edges
Your job is on a spreadsheet somewhere
Defending design system work when budgets contract
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
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
The component adoption gap: Understanding the psychology behind design system success
Why some elements become team favourites, while others gather digital dust –and what you can do about it.