Dave House
iknowdavehouse.bsky.social
Dave House
@iknowdavehouse.bsky.social
Design Systems | Aircooled VWs | Made a few records you don’t have

https://www.das.house
“Ask for forgiveness not permission”



“Ok then, I don’t forgive you”



“What do you mean?”
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Got a break between the days downpour for an autumnal cruise in the ‘62.
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
@guysegal.com delivered a wonderfully poignant talk on recognising the root cause of team frustration, safety and ultimately recognising being in a design system team can feel like an emotional merry go round
October 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Something that comes up almost every day in Design Systems space is an ever growing desire to just absolutely overload radio buttons with content.

Input Label
Essay
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Haven’t blogged in ages. Sorry self publishers, still on the M site.

iknowdavehouse.medium.com/freedom-with...
Freedom within a framework.
We do not strut… ever
iknowdavehouse.medium.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It’s not been the best year and it was my birthday last week so…

I now own a 1962 bug in beryl green with the best patina ever.

Spent most of its life in Washington state and has bags of history.
August 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Contribution in design systems is mostly people applying a go faster stripe to their own car and then asking Honda to include it as standard.
August 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I’ve had this Design Systems meme in my head for quite a long time.
August 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I appreciate this is pretty niche but have any of you web / a11y folk really dug into not being able to check a radio / checkbox with voice control e.g. dragon, if the label has any inline formatting… e.g. a span around a word etc
July 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I still don’t understand TikTok. I have 10 followers but my last post has had 43k views in a day 🤷
June 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Talk to me: Has anyone had any success with a schema approach to form journeys that could be integrated with different software platforms or user input types?
June 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Just had the absolute brainwave to distribute the contents of a freezer not by type of food but based on cooking time.

10 min shelf
15 min shelf
20 min shelf
25 min shelf

Gotta have a kids dinner ready in 10… pick only from that shelf. Yeah
June 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New specs day!
June 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Would you say design / tech is at a peak ideological crossroad?
June 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Another Liquid Glass accessibility take you didn’t ask for. Is it the death nail for aligned cross platform UI? Is it another example of accessible only through user settings - with those settings only taking effect on the applications native to that device.
June 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The revolution is just a t-shirt away
May 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
For those of you that are unaware of my previous career as an unpopular musician. I put some stuff I found in the loft on my Bandcamp davehouse.bandcamp.com/merch

Including this 2004 esque shirt.
May 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Reposted by Dave House
Don't mess with zooming on a website.
Don't mess with scrolling on a website.
Don't mess with default cursors on a website.
Don't mess with the default Tab order.
Don't mess with the back button in the browser.
Thank you.
May 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Reposted by Dave House
In order to sign into the Microsoft Authenticator app, it wants me to do 2FA using the... Microsoft Authenticator app
May 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Ok @penpot.app got me with these 4 slides.
May 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Anyone going to the Penpot London meet up tonight?
May 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Found this artefact in my flower bed. What do you reckon it was used for? Apart from hand of the king…
May 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
API is pulling more data overall (includes secret teams it seems) but each team has fewer inserts through the API compared to the csv. Any ideas? Tens of thousands different…
Hi #designsystems folk. Has anyone had any issues with @figma.com’s analytics? We’ve been manually pulling them through the UI for a couple of years. Now we’ve written a script to do it and the numbers are vastly different.
scooby doo scratching his head with the words i 'm so confused written below him
Alt: scooby doo scratching his head with the words i 'm so confused written below him
media.tenor.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Made a supercomputer known as DOPR (Design Operations Plan Response), programmed to continuously run user simulations and learn over time.

Unfortunately it’s increased the DEFCON level toward a stakeholder retaliation that will start World War III.
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Anybody know if there’s a good / free way to collaborate on a logic session without packaging things up continuously? Like cloud session? Been out of the game for a long time.
April 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM