@muldoon-design
Design Systems Architect • Creator of genomecolor.space • Programmer • Designer • Professional over-thinker with occasional moments of brilliance. 🏠 muldoon.design 🎨 genomecolor.space 📖 caoimghgin.medium.com 📍New York City Metro Area, U.S.A
Design once had what engineering still has: a tradition of history, theory, and critique that let practitioners appeal to shared principles outside any individual's authority.
I just published Why Engineers Can Say ‘This Is Wrong’ and Designers Can’t www.designsystemscollective.com/why-engineer...
I just published in @uxdesigncc Why design systems fail to resolve disagreements uxdesign.cc/when-agreeme...
Your design system arguments never resolve because the profession destroyed the tools that would let them. Here's when, here's how, and here's what it would take to get them back.
uxdesign.cc/when-agreeme...
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Is there a finer R.E.M. album than Lifes Rich Pageant? I think not!
I'm attending No Kings's event, “New Haven: No Kings, No Billionaires, No Genocide!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Thrilled to be a guest speaker this week at Patterns NYC, hosted by Knapsack. The topic is 'Patterns with Purpose: How Standards Drive Scale and Value'.
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In Battlestar Galactica, the phrase "All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again." suggests a cyclical pattern of human history, particularly relating to the conflict between humans and the Cylons.
Although the sample size is small (117), the strong preference of 84% for 'blue-90, a very dark tone,' provides a margin of error of ±6.7% at a 95% confidence level. For most practical purposes, this is sufficient for decision-making.
Please share this link and answer the poll. I have an upcoming podcast talking about palette colors and it would be great to have more respondents!
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Thank you so much! Your website is very inspiring! 🙇
I'm discussing design tokens and naming conventions in an upcoming podcast, details of which will be announced soon. Please, help me out by voting on the following poll by typing A or B in the thread. Love to hear why you chose your answer.
✨hire me ✨
I'm looking for new client work. Bringing over ten years of front-end development experience and Design Systems consultancy.
Do you need help with your current codebase?
Looking to create a fresh Design System?
Wanting to update your CSS?
I'm here.
www.alwaystwisted.com
🙏🖤
You'd think the button with white text on #578BDD background passes WCAG Color Contrast, but you'd be wrong. Only the black text passes AA and AAA for Normal text.
This is why APCA can't come soon enough.
Ohhh! Pick me! Pick me! 🤠
If a fresh start is appealing, I'm setting up my site with Astro, and I find it easy. It integrates well with GitHub/Netlify for CI/CD.
"I'm a design system team of one."
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How the HELL do you render those animal illustrations!? Keep your secrets if you must.
They are pretty cool, them Variables. Still, we were never able to make the leap. Just a more dynamic way to define tokens, especially Tier 2 and modes.
