Ian Frost
@ian-frost.bsky.social
Front-end architect and design systems specialist. Meteorologist out of practice. Enjoy music, sports, and the outdoors. Penn State grad.
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Ian Frost
@ian-frost.bsky.social
· Jan 9
5 ways to live a happier life:
1. Be grateful
2. Challenge yourself
3. Laugh
4. Stop comparing yourself to others
5. Respect/help others
1. Be grateful
2. Challenge yourself
3. Laugh
4. Stop comparing yourself to others
5. Respect/help others
What’s everyone looking forward to this weekend?
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
What’s everyone looking forward to this weekend?
Beautiful photos from a beautiful conference. Thanks for taking these and sharing these @florianziegler.com. These capture the pure goodness and humanity of all of these wonderful folks. Appreciate you.
And here it is – in full monochromatic glory – my documentation of beyond tellerrand 2025 in Berlin: florian.photo/gallery/btco...
#btconf #monochrome #documentary #photography / cc @beyondtellerrand.com
Reposts appreciated. 🙏
#btconf #monochrome #documentary #photography / cc @beyondtellerrand.com
Reposts appreciated. 🙏
beyond tellerrand Berlin 2025
This is my documentation of beyond tellerrand in Berlin, November 2025.
florian.photo
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Beautiful photos from a beautiful conference. Thanks for taking these and sharing these @florianziegler.com. These capture the pure goodness and humanity of all of these wonderful folks. Appreciate you.
Had a blast playing music with wonderful people tonight in Berlin @beyondtellerrand.com. Makes my heart happy to see so many people all together and happy
November 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Had a blast playing music with wonderful people tonight in Berlin @beyondtellerrand.com. Makes my heart happy to see so many people all together and happy
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Tuning into @figma.com's Schema and checking out the improvements to Figma Variables to support multi-brand design systems? Check out our comprehensive online course on design tokens: designtokenscourse.com
Learn how to wield tokens in code & design (including Figma's brand-new features!)
Learn how to wield tokens in code & design (including Figma's brand-new features!)
Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens
An in-depth course on design tokens: concepts, Figma Variables, code, processes, best practices, and more.
designtokenscourse.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tuning into @figma.com's Schema and checking out the improvements to Figma Variables to support multi-brand design systems? Check out our comprehensive online course on design tokens: designtokenscourse.com
Learn how to wield tokens in code & design (including Figma's brand-new features!)
Learn how to wield tokens in code & design (including Figma's brand-new features!)
Reposted by Ian Frost
But seriously, what songs should me, @ian-frost.bsky.social , and the @beyondtellerrand.com attendees cover? We're taking requests!
October 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
But seriously, what songs should me, @ian-frost.bsky.social , and the @beyondtellerrand.com attendees cover? We're taking requests!
You just need a chance in life. That chance tends to be getting harder and harder to get to though.
October 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
You just need a chance in life. That chance tends to be getting harder and harder to get to though.
What did we ever do to you b877e3?
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
What did we ever do to you b877e3?
See you in November Berlin! Excited to give the workshop, play some music, and meet new people!
@ian-frost.bsky.social & I are teaching our full-day Advanced Design Tokens workshop on November 5th! We’ll teach you how to create sophisticated design token systems to meet your Multi-All-The-Things organization’s multifarious design needs. beyondtellerrand.de/events/berli...
Full-Day beyond tellerrand Workshop: “Advanced Design Tokens” with Brad & Ian Frost – 05 Nov 2025
The answer is design tokens! For over a decade, we’ve helped dozens of organisations — including some of the world’s largest! — create design token systems to help them strike the balance between …
beyondtellerrand.de
September 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
See you in November Berlin! Excited to give the workshop, play some music, and meet new people!
Life with a toddler = poop + spilled coffee
September 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Life with a toddler = poop + spilled coffee
Your reminder to:
1. Take a deep breath
2. Be grateful you’ve lived to take on another day.
3. Be positive and hopeful.
4. Reach out to someone.
5. Find at least 1 thing to enjoy in your life today.
6. Take another deep breath.
That is all.
1. Take a deep breath
2. Be grateful you’ve lived to take on another day.
3. Be positive and hopeful.
4. Reach out to someone.
5. Find at least 1 thing to enjoy in your life today.
6. Take another deep breath.
That is all.
September 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Your reminder to:
1. Take a deep breath
2. Be grateful you’ve lived to take on another day.
3. Be positive and hopeful.
4. Reach out to someone.
5. Find at least 1 thing to enjoy in your life today.
6. Take another deep breath.
That is all.
1. Take a deep breath
2. Be grateful you’ve lived to take on another day.
3. Be positive and hopeful.
4. Reach out to someone.
5. Find at least 1 thing to enjoy in your life today.
6. Take another deep breath.
That is all.
I’m really passionate about helping people. It’s one of the things that cuts across the disciplines I’ve worked in. If I can make a living doing that, it is something that can fill my sense-of-purpose cup while providing for my family.
September 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I’m really passionate about helping people. It’s one of the things that cuts across the disciplines I’ve worked in. If I can make a living doing that, it is something that can fill my sense-of-purpose cup while providing for my family.
Proud of the work we put into this course and more importantly the value folks have gotten from it. If you’d like to dive deep into the token landscape, we’d be happy to help!
Our self-paced online course, Subatomic: The Complete Guide to Design Tokens will teach you everything you need to create & maintain a rock-solid design token system to help your organization design at scale: designtokenscourse.com
Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens
An in-depth course on design tokens: concepts, Figma Variables, code, processes, best practices, and more.
designtokenscourse.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Proud of the work we put into this course and more importantly the value folks have gotten from it. If you’d like to dive deep into the token landscape, we’d be happy to help!
Reposted by Ian Frost
📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th...
It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.
It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.
The History of Themeable User Interfaces
A full-ish history of user interfaces that can be themed to meet the opportunities and constraints of the time
bradfrost.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th...
It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.
It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.
Was just showing my son his videos. He wants to go “in there.” I want to go there, too, buddy.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_I...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_I...
Danny Macaskill: The Ridge
YouTube video by Cut Media
m.youtube.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Was just showing my son his videos. He wants to go “in there.” I want to go there, too, buddy.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_I...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_I...
"Must be at least 12 characters. But, it must be at least 14 characters according to the error. Don't you dare even try 13."
August 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Must be at least 12 characters. But, it must be at least 14 characters according to the error. Don't you dare even try 13."
1 year ago today, I played 3 hours of drums with over 30 of the most talented musicians and singers for @bradfrost.com ‘s concert Frostapalooza. Most of us had never played together until that night. The amount of joy I feel watching these videos is incredible. Such a fun night!
🎸 EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO I was playing music with an amorphous super group consisting of all of my musical friends and family. The event was called Frostapalooza and was one of the best experiences of my life.
It took a year, but the concert videos are finally live! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
It took a year, but the concert videos are finally live! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Frostapalooza - YouTube
Frostapalooza was a giant one-night-only benefit concert-slash-party-slash-happening featuring an amorphous super group of my musical friends and family. The...
www.youtube.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
1 year ago today, I played 3 hours of drums with over 30 of the most talented musicians and singers for @bradfrost.com ‘s concert Frostapalooza. Most of us had never played together until that night. The amount of joy I feel watching these videos is incredible. Such a fun night!
Feel like I am listening to the same music over and over again. Anyone have some good background/chill/funky music they are listening to lately?
August 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Feel like I am listening to the same music over and over again. Anyone have some good background/chill/funky music they are listening to lately?
Thanks @zachleat.com and @11ty.dev for the eleventy-import tool. It was super straightforward to use and I was able to get the majority of my blog posts page + single posts page built in 15 minutes as opposed to a ton of time manually writing markdown.
August 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thanks @zachleat.com and @11ty.dev for the eleventy-import tool. It was super straightforward to use and I was able to get the majority of my blog posts page + single posts page built in 15 minutes as opposed to a ton of time manually writing markdown.
I’ve said it before, but I think every U.S. citizen should get a free trip to 1 national park. Places like that put life into perspective.
August 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I’ve said it before, but I think every U.S. citizen should get a free trip to 1 national park. Places like that put life into perspective.
Slowly returning to my computer today after some time off. For those of you that live in Montana, Oregon, Alberta, and British Columbia, you live in beautiful places. It was a good reminder to embrace our surroundings.
August 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Slowly returning to my computer today after some time off. For those of you that live in Montana, Oregon, Alberta, and British Columbia, you live in beautiful places. It was a good reminder to embrace our surroundings.
One of my favorite movie quotes: “It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark…and we're wearing sunglasses.”
July 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
One of my favorite movie quotes: “It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark…and we're wearing sunglasses.”
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🚀 After months of work, I'm thrilled to announce not 1, not 2, but THREE projects:
1. My new Atomic Design Certification Course is available for preorder!
2. Wake Up Excited! is my new podcast about living a creative, positive life
3. I'm relaunching my email newsletter
As the kids say, LETS GOOO!
1. My new Atomic Design Certification Course is available for preorder!
2. Wake Up Excited! is my new podcast about living a creative, positive life
3. I'm relaunching my email newsletter
As the kids say, LETS GOOO!
July 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🚀 After months of work, I'm thrilled to announce not 1, not 2, but THREE projects:
1. My new Atomic Design Certification Course is available for preorder!
2. Wake Up Excited! is my new podcast about living a creative, positive life
3. I'm relaunching my email newsletter
As the kids say, LETS GOOO!
1. My new Atomic Design Certification Course is available for preorder!
2. Wake Up Excited! is my new podcast about living a creative, positive life
3. I'm relaunching my email newsletter
As the kids say, LETS GOOO!
“Just Breathe” by Pearl Jam. Fingerpicking isn’t a drummer’s strong suit, so I just rolled with this.
July 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“Just Breathe” by Pearl Jam. Fingerpicking isn’t a drummer’s strong suit, so I just rolled with this.