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Caroline Horn

@curiouschaos.com
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Designing in browser, aka designer-engineer dedicated to design systems and mostly nerding out on CSS and documentation. Formerly @ Ramp, @ Elastic 🔗 curiouschaos.com 🌎 DMV

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 1h
Cross posting here. Will have news on where I'm going next in a couple weeks. www.linkedin.com/posts/curiou...
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Well, the cat's out of the bag — I'm leaving Ramp. After a challenging (in the best way) and deeply rewarding four years, I'm excited to say I'll be doing it all again, just with a new...
Well, the cat's out of the bag — I'm leaving Ramp. After a challenging (in the best way) and deeply rewarding four years, I'm excited to say I'll be doing it all again, just with a new set of challeng...
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 15/09/2026
I let my husband borrow my sling purse for his travels. He finally gets it. 😄
Text message reads: Also. I’m loving this purse. It holds way more than my pockets, it doesn’t pull my pants down, and if I want to take my coat off… bam coat rack. So versatile!!!
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Ben Callahan @bencallahan.com · 20/07/2026
Episode 078 of The Question is live! Kacey Wood joins me to dig into the psychology of #designsystems work: reactance, pushback, and how you convince people without triggering their defenses. Answer before Wed 5pm ET and join Thursday's deep dive: bit.ly/answerTheQue...
Title card for The Question: Design System Deep Dives, Episode 078 — "The Psychology of Design Systems," July 23, 2026. Black-and-white headshots of co-host Kacey Wood (left) and host Ben Callahan (right) flank a large slash graphic.
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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 02/07/2026
How do you teach craft? Where does it come from? I asked this to @curiouschaos.com at the end of Wireframe Live yesterday and here's her answer: "The foundational piece ... is that the person cares." 💡 What a great insight. I truly believe this is the thing that is separating us from the LLMs.
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 02/07/2026
Chatting with @donnie.damato.design is the ultimate systems geek out session. I honestly loved this. Even though my "passion hives" were showing.
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Place of Craft w/ Caroline Horn | Wireframe Live
YouTube video by Design Systems House
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 30/06/2026
Excited to sit down and chat with *the* @donnie.damato.design tomorrow! Get ready for strong opinions and cynical views. 😂
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 12/06/2026
My current vibes have become more and more just "own your own shit". Like, are you asking for permission or a scapegoat?
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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 09/06/2026
Hot take: collapsible UI sections should mostly be reserved for things which are initially collapsed. Collapsing to avoid scrolling is slower than scrolling
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 29/05/2026
A huge archive of old websites from the older days that would have otherwise vanished or been taken over by ads. theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost/
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The Sites We Lost
A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 01/04/2026
Rather than the same old boring internet pranks, I thought I'd build something more fun this April Fools. CSS or BS. Can you tell your CSS properties names from BS? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs
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CSS or BS?
Think you know CSS? Real property or made-up nonsense? 20 rounds. No mercy.
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 22/02/2026
Ugh! Im so tired of watching men pressuring women about having children by saying "you'd be a great mother". She wasnt arguing that! And like... no shit! But you missed the flipping point.
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 16/02/2026
I finally updated my website to something at least somewhat pleasing. curiouschaos.com (Still vanilla HTML, no frameworks)
Website footer that says @ 2026 Caroline L. Horn - Design Engineering. All rights reserved.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 20/01/2026
Would you like to work with me? 👋🏻 I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team at Kesko and we’re looking for a nice & talented designer/developer to join us. arielsalminen.com/2026/hiring-...
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Hiring a Design Engineer for Kesko Design System
Hi 👋🏻, I’m Arielle, a Design Systems Architect working with Kesko. I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team in the organization and we’re looking for an experienced Design ...
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 09/01/2026
Robocalls now starting off by "clearing their throat". I still ain't buyin it!
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 17/12/2025
She found the line to the heater
Black cat sits on a stool facing away but head turned to look back towards the camera. In front of her is a small space heater pointed in the same direction
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 11/12/2025
Design systems are so much more than tokens! (and components)
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 21/11/2025
My toxic trait is thinking that every compliment and congratulation is disingenuous or condescending
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 21/11/2025
Not a blog post, but demo is just as good. codepen.io/clhorn99/pen...
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CSS Container Queries with Height
Demo showing how you can query for height changes using CSS container queries....
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 20/11/2025
I'm having my very own @nerdy.dev moment by beating CSS at its own game.... Yes, you can use container queries with auto height elements! I gotta write this down...
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 05/11/2025
Seriously though, its not as big of a story as NYC, but Virginia flipped 15! seats yesterday including the Governor, Lt Gov, and AG. We went from barely holding a 51 majority in the state house to 63! Take note!
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 05/11/2025
Way to turn out VA!!
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 29/10/2025
Everyone sees the problem with this, right? .... Right!?
The 3 different colors if the recently announced NEO home robot in cream, light blue and black against a stark white background.
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 12/09/2025
Them: What's the standard for this? Me: This Them: I don't like the standard, can we change it? Me: For what? Them: For this custom thing Me: We dont have a standard for that custom thing Them: Then what should be standard for this custom thing? Me: Its custom, go talk to who made it! #designsystems
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 10/09/2025
Im calling it. It's officially cider season! 🍎
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a group of people toasting with mason jars of apple cider .
Alt: a group of people toasting with mason jars of apple cider .
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Dave Snider @davesnider.com · 08/09/2025
Here here! If there's anything 25 years of coding CSS has taught me is that the road to the present is filled with ways to write CSS that no longer exist and have died off. Regular ol' CSS is a constant that will always work, and will always be the most valuable skill. Hell, it's never been better.
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 08/09/2025
I know tailwind already gets so much flak, but here's some more... It's failing our young developers. They're not actually learning CSS. CSS is transferable. Tailwind is not. This is my hill.
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 02/09/2025
How do folks handle education around the topic of truncation? I find this is the fallback for designers who want "prettier" layouts and engineers implementing "responsive" design. How do you show them how terrible the UX of it is? Or force them to think through how users access the full content?
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UXISTENTIALISM @pegahahmadi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Hi 👋 Finally joined Bluesky! I know some of the design systems folks are here. Would love to connect and swap ideas. #designsystems
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 29/08/2025
My pull requests these days
Double Spiderman meme of two Spiderman pointing at each other but one with a Graphite logo over the head and the other with a Claude code logo
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 09/08/2025
I'm struggling not to squish!
A black cat sleeps on a fluffy blanket in a cozy room with wooden beams. A deer head decoration hangs on a white wall, creating a calm ambiance.
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Dave House @iknowdavehouse.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Contribution in design systems is mostly people applying a go faster stripe to their own car and then asking Honda to include it as standard.
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 06/08/2025
I'm hiring, again! I'm looking for a strong (senior+) design-engineer (full 50/50 split) to join our design system team. Come bring the craft back to UI design!
jobs.ashbyhq.com
Senior Design-Engineer | Design Systems
ABOUT RAMP At Ramp, we’re rebuilding how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isn’t just the next big wave. It’s the new foundation for how business gets done. We’re investin...
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 05/08/2025
Lol. Take that AI!
Github screenshot: @chorn_ramp thank you you're amazing. You're like the Cursor bot, super quick, thorough, but you're correct 100% of the time instead of 25% of the time 😂
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Mia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 30/07/2025
CSS mixins & functions are coming! And the best way to prepare is by re-visiting CSS variables. Don’t let the Guaranteed Invalid value & Invalid at Computed Value Time behavior trip you up. Watch my CSS Day talk, or book a workshop to go in depth with modern #CSS! www.oddbird.net/talks/mixins/
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CSS Functions & Mixins
Is sass dead yet?
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 24/07/2025
I didn't *mean* to take this pretty of a picture of a beetle. But look at this pretty picture of a beetle!
A large beetle sits on a leaf at night, backlit with the light shining through its brown body
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 24/07/2025
I'm realizing just how important it is for design systems to be in the same meetings with product leadership. Our goals need to align with company goals. Otherwise, we may be fighting against each other unintentionally.
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 23/07/2025
No, AI will not make me a faster coder. It, too, has no clue what our linter rules are!
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Chad @kitation.co.uk · 17/07/2025
#Disabled folks, particular people who use assistive technology for web browsing, how do you feel #accessibility has been improving or not over the last few years? This is for a talk I want to write about the actual impact of accessibility regulations and compliance. Boosts and thoughts welcome!
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 04/06/2025
You'd get lost all the time. But then you'd actually learn the area, so next time, you'd remember and wouldn't need directions.
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 30/05/2025
Ok Figma, I know i give you a lot of flack, but holy cow, is AI image search the bees knees! I had about 15 screenshots from 30 designers spread across an ungodly amount of files. It found each actual design frame in seconds. So, yes, I humbly say thank you.
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Scott Riley @scott.is · 30/05/2025
'accessibility is difficult' is a shitty blanket statement. 'accessibility is made way more difficult by using shit frameworks and ui libraries with inaccessibility baked in' is not. if you're sacrificing semantic html for div soup you're gonna have a shit time no matter what.
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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 27/05/2025
We hit 700 videos on designsystems.media today! 🥳
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DesignSystems.media
A curated collection of design systems content
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Dan Denney @dandenney.com · 15/05/2025
Had a lot of fun recreating a UI, while learning more about clip-path and doing bad things with Grid Blogged about it www.dandenney.com/posts/front-... But if words aren't your thing, here's just a pen codepen.io/dandenney/pe...
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Trendy UI With Clip-Path and Grid
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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 12/05/2025
We’re hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer for our Design Systems team! Location: New Zealand (Hybrid/Remote). Help shape the future of Xero, building scalable and accessible UI components to improve life for small businesses and accountants. jobs.lever.co/xero/bc60245...
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Xero - Senior Front-End Engineer - Design Systems
About the team At Xero, the XUI team builds and maintains the core UI components and guidelines that power a consistent user experience for millions globally. We collaborate with product teams to ensu...
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Katie Langerman @katielangerman.com · 04/05/2025
Need something to listen to on route to Config? How about this new episode of Complementary with special guest Alex Krasikov where we discuss design engineering! open.spotify.com/episode/24oA...
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57: The Gap Between Design and Execution with Alex Krasikov
Complementary · Episode
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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 28/04/2025
I wrote about design system documentation. It may be one of, if not the most important thing a team can do–as long as the documentation is good. pjonori.blog/posts/design...
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Design system documentation is essential–as long as it’s good
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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 27/04/2025
It’s a pretty cool place! Though honestly I do find it a bit depressing how much of the community is still primarily on Twitter. Not in a judgy way. I stayed there for a super long time too. But in a “if everyone left we’d all be better off” way. Collective action problems are the worst.
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 24/04/2025
@figma.com Just because I was given a Dev Mode link, doesn't mean I want to forever be subscribed to Dev Mode updates for that file 🙏
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 14/04/2025
Don't get me wrong. Everyone should absolutely get paid! But... these prices for online courses & conferences are so high. It feels more like gatekepping. If prices were lower, don't you think more people would be able to afford and therefore more would be sold and make the same, if not more profit?
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 03/04/2025
I strongly do not recommend designing an obituary site for a friend that just passed. This shit is fucked.
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