The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I Built a Complete Design System in Two Days Using AI 040
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Your Design Tokens Are Stuck in 2020 000
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Design Systems Are No Longer Component Libraries. 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Developers have always structured components this way. 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Step 1: Create design-system.html in your repo 000
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 22/06/2026For years, design systems have been treated as the gold standard 110
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 09/06/2026In recent years, our work with design systems has shifted dramatically 000
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Most design systems look perfect in Figma. 000
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Let’s be honest — most design systems start with good intentions 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Over the years, design systems have felt like they have drifted away from product needs a bit 020
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 20/04/2026When design systems first became standard in digital product teams, they solved a clear problem 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Categorising and naming tokens is HARD 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 23/03/2026A design token is not a button. 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Somewhere around 2015, the design community decided that “design systems” were the answer to every problem. 101
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Designers work in Figma. Engineers work in code. Handoff 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 23/02/2026In the early days, tokens seemed like magic. 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Design systems industrialize design. That’s a fact 000
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 05/02/2026designers were detaching components at an alarming rate 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 05/02/2026digital products never reach the stage where a design system becomes necessary 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 04/02/2026As design systems become more complex, the role of the design system designer is evolving. 000
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Some people talk about design systems. 110
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 28/01/2026In practice, design tokens have become the new meetings 120
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 12/01/2026At some point, every UI designer runs into a similar problem, running out of usable colors. 020
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Design tokens might sound like trendy jargon 000
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 14/12/2025this opens the door to some design system utopia 020
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Design systems are so much more than tokens! (and components) 000
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 11/12/2025deliriously happy with my figma / design tokens 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Design tokens are basically design decisions 110
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Design systems were built for a world where humans made every pixel by hand. 121
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Design systems used to be about components. Now, they’re about control. 121
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Design systems were supposed to free us. 011
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Design systems promise order; a single source of truth, a shared language, a tidy world of reusable components. But beneath all that structure lies something so much messier 000
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Design tokens aren’t just a bridge between design and code, they are THE BRIDGE. 011
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Design tokens aren't just about consistency; they're about efficiency too! 030
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Design tokens promised to end the maintenance nightmare 020
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Does Accessibility Really Matter? (Yes.) 040
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Design Tokens, eh? It all used to be so simple... 050
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Design Systems have been for years our visual bibles 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 01/07/2025To be honest, I was a smidge skeptical. I know what a design token is 041
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Everyone’s Building UI Libraries — But Smart Devs 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 16/06/2025I could go on and on about design tokens 020
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 12/06/2025If I had a nickel for every time I heard that sentiment expressed over the years, I’d be writing this 030
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 31/05/2025If you’ve ever tried to implement a design system at a large company, you probably already know this 0111
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Design systems are everywhere. 010
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Looking forward to the day I stop writing about design tokens to be honest. 071
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Is Atomic Design Still Relevant in 2025? 020
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I’ve always believed the collaboration between Design Systems and Development is where the real magic happens. 051
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 14/04/2025design systems live at the intersection 030
The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horseds.bsky.social · 03/04/2025design systems are about human relationships 020
