Independent design systems designer. 🎨📐 Now @ Baseline, prev. Webflow, Twitter, & Figma. I love making the things that help others do their thing.
Hello again! 👋 It’s a chilly spring morning here in Ohio, and it feels great to write and share this post with everyone reading. Framework by Figma, the company's new virtual design systems event, happened this week and included several exciting announcements that I’d love to recap
Hello again! 👋 Well, Figma did it again. The team solved and shipped a feature—actually, kind of a whole new way of working within the canvas—to help address a problem I didn’t even know I had. It’s called multi-edit, and even though I’ve only been using
Hello again! 👋 Readers of this newsletter may know that one of the projects I’ve long worked on was creating a series of iOS UI kits available within the Figma Community. It was one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in my career, and I still can’t
Hello again! 👋 Phew, what a busy couple of weeks! Since returning home from Figma’s 2023 Config conference, I’ve been spending time in the tool, working to adjust all of the various component libraries to use the many new features now available. In this edition of the newsletter, and
Hello again! 👋 Ahh, what a fantastic week. I’ve been in my old home, San Francisco, for the past few days to attend Figma’s largest-ever Config design conference. I was so thankful to have the opportunity to say hi to so many new friends and to reconnect with those
Hello again! 👋 I hope your 2023 is off to a wonderful start. I just turned 30, and with the celebration and the start of a new year and decade of my life, it felt like it was time to collect and share the tools I plan to use throughout the
Hello again! 👋 Phew, life has been busy lately! Since last publishing, I’ve gotten married, completed my first five months at Webflow, and have been thinking a lot about where and how I want to spend my time to continue to share with all of you. With so much changing
Hello again! 👋 Wow, it's been a busy few months, but I haven't forgotten about this newsletter! Since my last publish, I've joined the talented team at Webflow, helping to build out the company's design system. It's a big challenge, but
Hello again! 👋 I’m thankful to have gotten a little rest and recharge in this past week, as I just recently had my last day working with the talented team at Twitter. I’m happy to be writing again today and can’t wait to share what’s next for
Hello again! 👋 The last few weeks have been especially tough and especially heavy. I hope this newsletter finds you well and that a little bit of fun and nerdy Figma talk can bring you some happiness today. At last month’s Config 2022, the Figma team announced a new feature
Hello again! 👋 This may be a personal record for the fastest I’ve ever written a newsletter, but that’s because the opening keynote for Figma’s Config 2022 just wrapped up and so many of the latest announcements have me feeling excited! In case you missed the keynote, or
Earlier this month, I shared a change that I recently made when it comes to working and creating components for others to use within Figma. The change? I'm no longer relying so heavily on base components to create published components. If you're unfamiliar with this idea,