Thoughts on design systems, design technology, and front-end development.
A personal site needs a few pages and a contact link. Mine has a design system, a token pipeline, 49 tested components, a résumé that rebuilds itself, and AI agents that maintain it overnight. None of it is necessary, which is the whole point.
This question has been floating around the design community for years. Should designers learn to code? Why should I even bother answering this question that has been answered by so many before me?
Color systems are important tools for building accessible web applications, which is why a color system is one of the first items on a list when it is decided to build a design system.