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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 17/09/2026

I got a lot out of this video essay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgjX... I’m also (still) reading How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra. It also has a challenge to imagine the best future. I’m finding it hard.

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Why Nothing Looks Cool Anymore

YouTube video by Design Theory

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 05/09/2026

Babies with food on their face: not cute 🤢 But to the parents of the kid it often is adorable. This is a tweet about design systems.

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 17/08/2026

A Pattern Language has a lovely metaphor for design of poetry and prose. Generative AI is putting together many cromulent web experiences. Polished, balanced, refined. But is this compression — this shorthand of clues, hints, and suggestions — something only humans will be able to do? 🤷

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Can AI write poetry?

Or when it comes to visual languages, is this something only people can do?

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 12/08/2026

Spicy take: lots of 'async' I've seen promoted isn't async. Record a loom, drop a message, wait 6+ hours for a reply. Is this just slow sync? 🌶️🌶️🌶

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 05/08/2026

After over 4.5 years I've taken a voluntary redundancy and completed my last day at GitLab. Being at GitLab was the best job I have ever had, and where I've done some of the best work. I wrote some of my reflections, it changed how I think about work, forever. danmh.xyz/gitlab/

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gitlab.com/danmh (2022–2026)

Senior Designer on the design systems team.

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 22/07/2026

Love this, liquid glass physics with flat plastic materials

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 17/07/2026

I find myself choosing to use software that is more beautiful or fun but less capable over 'better' alternatives more and more often

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 16/07/2026

So lush to hear @donnie.damato.design and @bencallahan.com be so vulnerable on wireframe.ds.house tonight. Very generous people who serve the design systems space so well (in very different flavours 😅)

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Wireframe Live weekdays @ 5pm ET

Transparent Design Talk

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 01/07/2026

Designer toxic trait: Spending more time picking OTF character variant combinations than the words themselves

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 15/04/2026

Spent some time last week trying to get AI assistants to do stuff for me as a design system designer in Figma. The results were mixed, but did lead to some actionable suggestions for what to do about it youtu.be/5aNg3M7hnGY?...

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Spike: AI assistant + Figma MCP for code-to-Figma workflows — walkthrough

YouTube video by GitLab Unfiltered

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 19/03/2026

Beautiful storytelling. Lots of bonus parallels to successful design system maintainer <> consumer relationships. Proud to be a generalist. nearzero.software/p/warranty-v...

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Warranty Void If Regenerated

Tom Hartmann had not planned to become a Software Mechanic.

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 13/03/2026

@oyabun.bsky.social love what you’re cooking with TUIStudio!

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 16/02/2026

Mini eggs > caramel eggs > crème eggs

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 04/02/2026

Alternative caption: what if your UI elements behaved like cats

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 16/01/2026

Never gets old seeing a designer make their first code change, it update in the browser before their own eyes, and them instantly realise that their practice will never be the same again 🥰

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 19/12/2025

2025 complete. Worked on great things with quality people. I end the year convinced — more than ever — that the best future is one where those who design and build work closer together. And using shared languages, tools, and incentives. danmh.xyz/wrapped-2025/

GitLab contribution graph for @danmh. It shows the year laid out as a grid with one square per day. Darker squares represent more contributions for that day. Contributions are defined as issues, merge requests, pushes, and comments. The graph shows consistent contributions across the year, many per day mon–fri. There are a few weeks with 0 contributions which correspond to time off.

Full graph viewable at gitlab.com/danmh . I am sorry the screen reader experience is pretty rubbish if you are looking for an overview, but you can get the exact values day by day.

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 19/12/2025

Design is $this. Design is $that. Blah blah blah

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 31/10/2025

Converge 10/10 No notes

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 31/10/2025

Such a pertinent talk. I think this is one that will be referenced and built on for years to come. Can’t wait to get stuck into the content again

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Nia Campbell @niacampbell.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Our report on transforming public services for a modern Wales launches this Friday! 🙌 But we need help to get it to decision-makers, campaigners, community leaders, and journalists. Can you support and share our Crowdfunder to make this happen? 🙏 Diolch, thank you!

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 04/10/2025

Love to see a physical release in 2025 Huge congrats to the team at @immichapp.bsky.social immich.store/en-gbp/produ...

Photo of an open jewel CD case on dark background. Front booklet reads “immich v2.0.0 Stable” and features 90s/00s style cut out grainy images of a crt, camera, vhs; a photo of a person on a skateboard; and 8x8 pixel representations of a computer mouse, camera, heart, person, video and more. Half tone and pointy lines aplenty

Photo of an open jewel CD case on dark background. Back cover has two windows 95 style dialogs on a blue cloudy sky background.

Dialog 1:
Setup instructions
1. Shut down your computer
2. Insert disc into DVD drive
3. Turn on your computer
4. Select this disk as the boot device in your computer’s BIOS
[Ok]

Dialog 2:
System requirements
- 2 core x86 Processor
- 8GB RAM
- DVD Drive
- Local Network Connection

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 03/10/2025

Always so frustrating hearing about household names not paying their freelance creative on time

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Luke Murphy @lurkmoophy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Yo design system losers - there's under 40 tickets left for Converge. You heard it here first. Get in before it sells out. And yes, agenda is out next week. converge.zeroheight.com

converge.zeroheight.com

A one-day in-person design systems conference that brings the community together

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 25/08/2025

Ynys Y Barri ☀️

Sand, headland, and sea stretch out. Framed by the columns and square roof structures of the promenade. Bright light from a clear sky contrasts the sharp lines of the shade. The beach is full, the promenade empty.

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 19/08/2025

Always exciting to see more designers committing code for the first time

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 03/08/2025

So what’s everyone using for a css normalise these days?

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 16/07/2025

I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.

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Why Women in Tech isn't enough

Women in Tech spaces help, but fall short in the long run. Real progress needs systemic change and active involvement from men in positions of power.

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 14/07/2025

Is the there a design equivalent of code smell? ‘Design smell’ has some smell of its own 😅

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · 02/07/2025

Figma going public means new industry tooling coming because they will slow down, focus on 1/4 by 1/4 numbers before eventually being swallowed by a PE firm or sold for little to Adobe who will rename it. Be on your toes design folk. Now is the time to try everything and use what works.

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 21/06/2025

This way of designing products was so perfect for people like me who wanted to figure out how stuff worked

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 18/06/2025

Are there places to volunteer some time for design mentoring other than ADPList?

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 15/05/2025

Hey @nathanacurtis.bsky.social I’m rereading the [documenting components](medium.com/eightshapes-...) series. I’m struggling to find the part on “code”. Is that still available anywhere? Thanks for all you do and share 🙇

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Documenting Components

Serve a System’s Audiences with Well-Architected Content

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 07/05/2025

Sad that @figma.com have the chat turned off for the live streams #Config2025

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 02/05/2025

git commit -a -m “chore: make the pipelines happy”

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 14/03/2025

Service designers come help us figure out some wonderful end to end experiences at GitLab! (Salary range is shared with applicants) job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/...

job-boards.greenhouse.io

Senior Service Designer

Remote, Americas · Remote, Europe

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Massage Gun Kelly @martyn.blog · 01/03/2025

Need to find a new notes app. Besties have steered me towards Obsidian. Do you Obsidian? What's the best tips and tricks and plugins for it, Obsidiusers?

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 24/02/2025

@martyn.blog oh when’s the next UX Wales, butt?

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 17/02/2025

Nobody: Design systems maintainers:

Birth of a new star in the solar system caused by the implosion of Jupiter. Alien message reads “USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE”

Still from 2010: A Space Odyssey

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 15/02/2025

This will save me so many hours when trying to figure out what is going on with popovers and tooltips 😅

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 15/02/2025

It is so satisfying to take something apart and put it back together better than you found it

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Dan MH @danmh.xyz · 14/02/2025

Design System friends, who is writing about onboarding consumers to use design tokens in their work?

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