I hosted a watch party tonight which I feel like is kinda the best of both worlds. You don’t have to travel far but you still get to talk about the new features with other nerds

Many teams tend to treat user stories like nothing more than a funky way to format a JIRA ticket summary. Instead of “add refresh button” they’ll write “as a user I want a button that lets me refresh the app”

Agreed. And in general that using a design system in which each individual component has been usability tested doesn’t mean you’ll build a usable application.

I cancelled my subscription last year when they essentially suggested Harris throw trans people under the bus as a low-effort sign of goodwill towards Republicans.

“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
Bertolt Brecht

“This is the best design book ever” can occasionally also mean “I finally managed to read one (1) design book and I just have to tell people about it”

After you recently added the ability to sort modes, there’s one one variables feature I long for desperately – please let us add opacity to referenced variables. It’s all I’ve ever wanted 🙏

Thanks for all the input! That’s the site we were using for reference in our evaluation (which, side note, absolutely wild UI going on there), and I did think APCA performed better for dark mode. I guess the safest bet is to define colour pairs that satisfy both calculations.

Take us to your leader

Yeah, goes to show that while it’s good to look ahead it’s bad to jump the gun. 😅 Don’t want to be in the alternate universe where we overhauled our entire contrast system for APCA

That’s wild, thanks so much for alerting me to it! We tried to evaluate the impact on our design system last year and decided to put it off until it became unavoidable. I’m surprised bc I felt it did look “more readable” without my glasses, but I’ll definitely keep reading.

I also do so wish they’d offer APCA as well.

I shouldn’t have posted a comment that could potentially be read as mean-spirited to someone I don’t know, even in joking. My bad 🙂

Oop, sorry if it came across the wrong way! I was going for a joke 😅 I have a lot of non-design coworkers who would probably assume they can “vibe design” anything they need with AI

Same I was about to write a strongly worded skeet