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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 21/02/2026

Excited to share I'll be speaking at "Design Systems with @figma.com : Sydney" on 5th March. I'll be talking about how we build design systems at Xero ✨ See you there! Register to our spot now: figma.bot/4tv0qAl

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Design Systems with Figma: Sydney

The way we build is changing fast. Design systems are more essential than ever. Join Figma and the design systems community for this in-person event on March 5th.

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 14/09/2025

So @figma.com Figma Make AI can't access your Figma file directly OR use any Code Connect mapping? I'm really disappointed the input in Figma Make is limited to text/image. Seems bonkers we can't provide a direct link to a page/selection/node like we can in Figma MCP. Hope this is on the roadmap

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Ben Callahan @bencallahan.com · 08/09/2025

Time is almost up! Happy Monday, system nerds. You have until Wed at Noon EST to answer The Core Sample (an industry-wide, #designsystem pulse survey). I want to hear how you're doing. 💚 We'll unpack it at The Redwoods Quarterly, but we need your help to make it happen. bit.ly/TheCoreSampl...

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 08/09/2025

Experimenting with Notebook LLM, pasted a JSON snippet of some #designtoken data and the generated source name surprised me: "Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the US Economy" Google AI must be a bit preoccupied with other conversations 🤷‍♂️

Screenshot of Notebook LLM automatically naming a design token JSON snippet to be about US economy and covid-19

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Ben Callahan @bencallahan.com · 23/06/2025

This is a phenomenal resource for any #designsystem folks out there. So many brilliant talks and podcasts available here! Bookmark this one for sure. Well done, team!

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 23/06/2025

Massive update for designsystems.media, now with podcasts! 🎧 1000+ design systems videos and podcasts, indexed with topics and speakers

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Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Series 2 of Systems of Harm… things are happening 👀 If you have no idea what I’m talking about, series 1 is still available to listen to on all the main podcasting platforms. I talked to 6 brilliant guests about how design systems fit into wider systemic harm. open.spotify.com/show/5qXmICc...

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Systems of Harm

Podcast · Amy Hupe · Design systems are the systems of tools, processes and practices that we use to create digital products, like websites and applications. But can design systems play a role in perp...

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 22/05/2025

Gutted @mozilla.org shutting down pocket.com - one of the main reasons I just bought a new Kobo 😞 www.theverge.com/news/672924/...

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Pocket

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 20/05/2025

Faux news: Google Meet is rolling out "Emotion Recognition" overlays, only available for People Leaders at this stage

Fake screenshot of a video call using AI to highlight each face and labelling the registered emotion: happy, fake smile, neutral, silent rage, ughh pls stop.

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 13/05/2025

We're hiring a Design Technologist at Xero.com to supercharge our prototyping capabilities and bring ideas to life through expert front-end and design skills. If this sounds like your kind of role, check it out! Locations: New Zealand, Australia Type: Onsite, Hybrid, Remote Links in thread 🧵

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Accounting Software for Small Businesses

Xero online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today.

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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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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 Harwood @noworries.nz · 21/04/2025

I like this new Chrome update, letting me know how long I've left these tabs open. I'm usually hitting triple digits with tabs on mobile 😅

Chrome browser feature telling me how old a lot of my tabs are, so I can close them

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 11/04/2025

FWIW - I'm am very excited about Code Connects potential... BUT (giant, enormous but) I am really conscious that it is very brittle 🌶️ 🧵

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 10/04/2025

I'm not a rabbit expert, but that is definitely the BACK of a rabbit in this colouring competition 🐰🤣 Local business throwing a real bunny curve ball at the kids this Easter 🖍️

Colouring competition showing the back view of a rabbit

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 07/04/2025

another issue of the Design Systems News curated newsletter is in the hopper. If you're wanting a (almost) weekly newsletter of some of the best links to articles, tutorials, tools, examples, and more then you can sign up here: news.design.systems 🙏🖤 #DesignSystems #WebDev #WebDesign

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Design Systems News

A publication full of interesting, relevant, and curated links.

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 07/04/2025

@donnie.damato.design getting fired up for his next #designsystem blog post 🔥

Michael Jordan saying "...and i took that personally"

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 06/04/2025

Delivering tokens to production, one way or another 😏

Drawing of "Me" delivering the Trojan Horse to the gates of the city (labelled "Production"). The Trojan Horse is full of hidden "Design Tokens"

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Design Systems Community Chapter New Zealand 🇳🇿 @dsccnzl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📣📣 Important updates from Design Systems Community Chapter New Zealand 🚀 We have moved to a new community platform Join us on Guild guild.host/dscc_nzl 🪦 We are closing the DSCC NZ group on meetup (tl;dr too expensive) 📆 Next DSCC NZ event planned for 9 May (12-1pm) More info coming out soon!

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Design Systems Community Chapter New Zealand | Guild

Welcome to Design Systems Community Chapter (DSCC) New Zealand Design Systems Community helps bring people together to share ways of workin

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 31/03/2025

PSA: Figma measurements and annotations are for _paid seats only_ 💰 It's great to see new features arriving so frequently, but do check your developers have paid seats _before_ you get excited to use this particular feature. help.figma.com/hc/en-us/art...

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a woman sitting at a table talking to a man who says money pleeeeease

Alt: a woman sitting at a table talking to a man who says money pleeeeease

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Brad Frost @bradfrost.com · 15/01/2025

Our hearts ache for everyone impacted by the LA wildfires. Design systems extraordinaire Elyse Holladay set up a fund to help feed displaced people. Consider making a donation! We're donating $50 of every preorder of our design tokens course to the cause. More info: bradfrost.com/blog/post/do...

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Donating to LA Fire Support

Like everyone else, the tragic wildfires ravaging Los Angeles area make our hearts ache. We feel for all of our friends, industry pals, and everyone who has been impacted by the fires. LA-based des...

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Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Reminding you all that aria-label overwrites. <span aria-label="Price">€30</span> This changes the accessible name to "Price". It does not concatenate.

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Polypane. Browser for web devs @polypane.app · 20/11/2024

The next release is still a few weeks out but we couldn't wait to show this off. Our astigmatism simulators are getting an amazing upgrade, courtesy of some wild CSS magic by Cubiq.dev and it looks amazing 😍

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 20/11/2024

AMA I just used the Slice tool in Figma

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 19/11/2024

Holy s%&t, eBay DS team have knocked their doc site out of the park! I keep finding new things to enjoy, the color pairing tool is 🔥 Nailed the brief, clearly communicated guidance with lashings of fun and creativity at every turn. Bravo, you've raised the bar. Docs don't have to be dull! 👏👏

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 14/11/2024

Friday afternoon game with the team, our list now includes a deathmatch in Quake 3 Arena (free, browser-based) 🔫 openarena.live

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OpenArena Live

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 12/11/2024

New update to Figma Analytics CSV Export extension v1.1 🚀 ✅ Fix export issue after UI changes. ✅ Improved file naming for Org Libraries Just hit 670 users! 🤯🎉 #Figma #DesignSystems

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 10/11/2024

If you love RSS - I've just updated my .xml file of all the feeds I subscribe to (using feedbin) Here's the GitHub repo: github.com/sturobson/my... 🙏🖤 #RSS #WebDev #FrontEnd #DesignSystems

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 07/11/2024

call me ratatouille the way i am using this skinny man's strange body to cook in heretofore inconceivable ways

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 07/11/2024

Me (audibly interrupting my own autopilot): "No. F$*# you, Twitter. I'll post this/DM them on BlueSky instead." Trying to break a 10yr habit is hard.. 🦋

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 04/11/2024

📣 Shout out to yuanqinglim for all his Figma plugins! Add `Insert Big Image` to your toolkit: www.figma.com/community/pl... Figma quietly downsizes images larger than 4096px in width/height. With the plugin you can import at full resolution (and even 2x them!)🔥 👏 Thank you!👏

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Insert Big Image | Figma

Insert and retain the original resolution of big images. Fund my work on Figma plugins → Insert Big Image Opens a dialog through which one or more image files can be selected. Intelligently splits u...

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 20/10/2024

I’ve put together a little Design Systems folks starter pack for y’all. 🙏🖤 go.bsky.app/MR3D82R

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 18/04/2024

Products with`.new` domains is one of those awesome little shortcuts I just take for granted now. Here is a mega list of domain shortcuts: whats.new/shortcuts/ Some favourites i know and use: docs.new confluence.new sheets.new figma.new github.new pen.new What ones do you use?

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.new - Google Registry

Browse the full list of .new shortcuts available today from Adobe, Spotify, and many more.

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Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

📣I’m looking for new clients. I’m looking for contract or consultancy work (outside IR35 only), doing one of the following: - content design - design systems documentation - content design coaching or consultancy - design systems coaching or consultancy - design systems management 1/2

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 22/02/2024

Export your Figma library analytics to CSV 📄 Resharing for anyone who missed this last year, reduce manual effort with your design system figma library reporting 🤙 #figma #designsystems #designsystem

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 06/02/2024

Finally hit the designsystems.media backlog, sitting at 538 videos now. Let me know if there are any other videos to include 🤙 #designsystems

Screenshot of all the new content loaded onto designsystems.media

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 19/09/2023

Excited to announce Design System Events calendar is now live! ds.events 🚀 🗓️ Discover the best events around the world, and easily stay up to date by subscribing to the iCalendar and RSS feeds. Release announcement: x.com/donniedamato... #design #designsystems

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Design Systems Events (ds.events)

Discover the best design system events happening around the world. Subscribe for free.

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Josh Harwood @noworries.nz · 12/09/2023

Launched another little side project: 🧰 toolkit.design Working my way through categorising and tagging 8+ years of design-related bookmarks. Figured there might be some interesting resources for others, so making it public

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Toolkit.design

Years of design bookmarks, finally being organised

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 08/08/2023

Similar to approaches taken by search engines, you can now tell OpenAI not to use your site content in its AI models platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 12/07/2023

I just posted a new contract role on our design system team. Which on the surface is awesome, but it's also heart-breaking as *so many people* are reaching out with interest in the job. Many of whom have been looking for a new gig for months. All this need for employment. And I have one open role.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Meta turned over their DMs, used as evidence to convict them on felony charges for accessing criminalized healthcare. Meta had the data so had to hand it over. End to end encryption keeps people safe. jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-pleads-gui…

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Nebraska Mom Pleads Guilty to Giving Abortion Pills to Her Teen Daughter

Jessica Burgess faced eight years in prison for helping her then 17-year-old get abortion pills. A plea deal brought it down to two.

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val head @vlh.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

My favourite shot from last week's shelter dog photoshoot. A surprise squeaker can get you some really funny looks!

Brown and white brindle dog on a green background with small floppy ears turning suddenly to look at the camera with his tongue out.

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