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Design systems, medieval cathedrals, and architects.

Saint Hedwig and the New Convent; Nuns from Bamberg Settling at the New Convent — Paul Getty MuseumWas the Gothic style one of the first examples of a “design language” based on modularity and...

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From zero to Cosmos — Part #3

Third part: where I show where we are today, and where we think we will be in the futureThis is the story of how a small style guide that was first introduced under the radar, became so appreciated by...

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Autobiography in Five Short Chapters

A quote from “There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk” by Portia NelsonPhoto by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on UnsplashA few days ago I came across this lovely quote in a comment to a blog post about change (and why we...

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Technical debt in a quip

“Why did it took so long?”“Well, because it took so little to the dev before me!”The End

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Keep it simple, stupid!

How one line of CSS code saved me hours of React developmentYesterday I was trying to solve a problem while building the style guide of Cosmos, the Design System that we have developed in Badoo (you...

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How to manage your Design Tokens with Style Dictionary

Recently I have come across a tool, called Style Dictionary, developed by Danny Banks at Amazon, that allows you to manage design tokens (or “style properties”) for a design system. I’ve used it to...

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Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js script

Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js script — Part #1First part: from the idea to the assets Sketch files.TL;DRUsing a custom build script in Node JS, it is possible to...

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Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js script

Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js script — Part #2Second part: the build script and the generation of the assets.This is the second part of a post about the creation...

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Measuring the Impact of a Design System

A few days ago I was writing my bi-annual review, and I was thinking of how I could include some meaningful metrics about the success of our design system in Badoo.It is undeniable that in the last six...

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Design Tokens beyond colors, typography, and spacing.

In recent months, I couldn’t help but notice how many people (and companies) when referring to “design tokens” what they actually mean is colors, typography, spacing (and in some cases elevation,...

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