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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦

@samiamdesigns.bsky.social
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Freelance Design Systems Lead 🎨📐 Host @ Into Design Systems 👩‍🎨 Creative weirdo 🖤 🏡🎶 House music selectress 🌅 Sky chaser (She/Her)

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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Dear Anthropic, Just incase no one told you, these overlay components with suggested tasks are NOT typically called chips. Sincerely, A design systems practitioner who...
A design interface shows task suggestions, highlighting "not a chip" along with text discussing glossary and task management details.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's wild to me that there isn't an easy way understand the relationships between language - writing system - design systems (typography - computer programming - design tooling). 🤯
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Timeline cleanse for all the 😻
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Currently unsubscribing to every email newsletter in my inbox and selectively adding them to an RSS feed. 💌 Pleasently surprised how many sites have RSS feeds out of the box even when they aren't advertised by adding /RSS after the URL 🙌
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Life as a freelancer with ADHD means I am regularly in a shame spiral for letting my digital work get chaotic because out of sight = out of mind until it's time to back up the client project at wrap. 🙈 ISO download / screenshot management workflow tips and tricks.
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Pam Beesly from The Office
Alt: Pam Beesly from The Office places a takeaway container in the garbage bin from behind her desk
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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 03/06/2026
Hey writers, editors, & anyone who uses Google workspace because there’s no other viable alternative - in addition to turning off Smart features, make sure you toggle off this new mess of nonsense hidden in the Admin settings.
Screenshot of Gemini settings for Google Workspace - turn off these features to protect your work.
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Scott Riley @scott.is · 03/06/2026
instead of listening to all the thought-leader grifters that used to be somewhat respectable acting as mouth pieces for slop machines, spend some time getting very good at making stuff. there’s only so long these fucks can pretend this shit is actually good.
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 01/06/2026
On June 1, 1999, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning launched the peer-to-peer file-sharing platform Napster. #InternetHistory
Napster GUI
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 01/06/2026
We've shared a few things to help you get away from big tech over time but this specific event (and the resources) looks great. di.day/en
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Home — Digital Independence Day
On the first Sunday of each month we organise Digital Independence Day. This is when we reclaim our digital freedom and switch to democracy-friendly digital alternatives.
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Una Kravets @una.im · 01/06/2026
The State of CSS survey is out! It's shorter this year! Please go take it! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...
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State of CSS 2026
Take the State of CSS survey
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I love getting random DMs from people sharing with me all the ways AI butchers my name when it quotes an article/video of mine. 😂 I know that my last name is a mouthful, even for AI but Sam Stone is a bit of a stretch...
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Adobe Fonts design team launched a fun little side project last week: Glyph Finder! It allows you to see how the design of a specific character varies across a random selection of different typefaces from the Adobe Fonts library. labs.fonts.adobe.com/projects/gly...
A screenshot of Glyph Finder: a website where the user can input a Unicode code point and see it rendered in a variety of different fonts from the Adobe Fonts library
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The One! The Only! DOCTOR HONK! @thechunch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
SUBJECT: URGENT TO THE DEVELOPERS OF THE PYTHON LIBRARY CALLED "SHAPELY" EVERY TIME I NEED TO LOOK SOMETHING UP IN YOUR DOCUMENTATION I WIND UP GOOGLING THE PHRASE "SHAPELY PYTHON" AND FEEL LIKE A PERVERT PLEASE CHANGE YOUR LIBRARY'S NAME SINCERELY A MAN WHO IS TRYING TO BE RESPECTABLE
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
scraping old paint and caulking off of baseboards is my current oddly satisfying guilty pleasure away from my computer... What's yours?
Paint chips all over the floor next to a paint scraping tool
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Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol · 25/05/2026
"I’m not the only one. Personal sites are coming back. RSS feeds are coming back. Webrings are coming back. People are remembering that a website can be a home or a place instead of a profile." www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-i... Yessss @terrygodier.com!
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The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Do these corps with the massive layoffs understand what they are doing to their future ability to recruit top talent? The next 5 years are going to be very interesting...
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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 25/05/2026
Better Fluid Sizing With “round()”, by @shadeed9@front-end.social: ishadeed.com/article/css-round/?ref… #css #functions #liquiddesign
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Better fluid sizing with round()
Using the round() function to get a more predictable fluid sizing.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Excited to be teaching for SILCON Stanford University 🔡 I'll be focusing on the design side of the inaugural KBI UX incubator focusing on typography and text content in Figma for this incredible group of brilliant minds.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The tech gremlins have been pushing Google and Zoom meeting invites into my spam and junk over the last two weeks, but somehow this one makes it to the inbox? I certainly don't want to work with Mr. Wang, but I do need to get work emails from folks I've already been chatting with! 😂 WTF
An email from Mark Wang with a suspicious looking email address expressing eagerness to work together, received in the inbox amid junk messages.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“Unless the design system you’ve built is structured as a genuine contract that those (AT) tools can read and reason against, you’re accumulating bespoke UI at speed and calling it productivity.” - MT 🙌 This was a fantastic read
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Reasons why it's been 5 years of trying and I still don't fully get Git in infographic form...
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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 11/02/2026
~7 years ago I started curating a list of Design Tokens resources on GitHub… today I launch something better. An updated, tagged collection of 292+ articles on design tokens. www.alwaystwisted.com/projects/dtm... more links/resources coming soon. 🙏🖤 #DesignTokens #DesignSystems #WebDev
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Phillip Lovelace @pixelflips.com · 11/02/2026
“Creating is energizing. Reviewing is draining…” siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...
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AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare
You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Who will I see in the chat? I'm doing something totally different this time 🎶🎧👩🏼‍💻
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I should have guessed when Claude was on Struggle Street this week, they were about to push something big 😻 Opus 4.6 Cowork is checking Figma data (Anova plugin YAML), comparing it to my design token JSON files + ADR's, reviewing Radix open-source docs, and writing my component architecture docs 🤯
Dark-mode developer workspace (claude co-work) showing a chat-style assistant drafting "Generate IconButton component" docs, file list and progress sidebar visible.Dark-themed workspace (claude co-work) showing a documentation editor with bullet-point notes on IconButton token fixes, file sidebar and a progress/file list panel.
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Mark Cianfrani @cianfrani.me · 11/01/2026
what if the Figma MCP wasn't actually useless and let you write to your Figma files? (its easy) cianfrani.dev/posts/a-bett...
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A Better Figma MCP or How To Let Claude Design
The one where we give Claude access to the Figma API
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Wanna guess which of these stats I'm the most proud of? 🙏 Top 10% of builders globally using Lovable is WILD, seeing as I started using it in Dec for SheBuilds, where I sent almost 200 messages in 48hrs. However, it's the 9/10 in the politeness score that made me smile. 🫶
Bright gradient card showing "My 2025" with stats: 9/10 politeness, 247 messages, 170K lines, title "Elite Vibe Coder" and 5.7K hours saved.Dark gradient card proclaiming a politeness score: "Your politeness score is 9/10," with a note saying you say "please" and "thank you" more than 91% of builders.Bold text declares "Elite Vibe Coder" over a colorful gradient starburst, with praise about astronomical code output and Lovable branding.Bright gradient card showing "247 Messages" with supportive tagline about building your vision and Lovable app branding.
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nate moore @natemoo.re · 06/01/2026
got my full listening history export from Spotify and want to ingest it into @teal.fm—anybody build this yet?
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
2026 is the year I spend more time in RSS. What are your fav feeds? 👀
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SmashingConf @smashingconf.com · 22/12/2025
Come and join us in February for the first Smashing Meets of 2026! We'll be talking about everything Design Systems with the lovely @bencallahan.com, @samiamdesigns.bsky.social, and @geoffgraham.me. We hope you will join us online. Tickets are free 💞 smashingconf.com/meets-design...
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sɴᴅƨ @snds.design · 21/12/2025
Does anyone in my bsky vicinity have experience with game design? I’m working on a game design document and I’d love to either pick your brain, or maybe we can work on this concept of mine together.
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Alan B Smith @alanbsmith.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Don’t get caught up in the silly design system debate on whether design or code is the “real source of truth.” We all know the authoritative source of truth is actually a spreadsheet.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Thats a wrap on SheBuilds! I truly built something Lovable in 48hrs dispite being sick 🤒 Full rundown after I'm done being rundown 🫶
Dark gradient webpage titled "future friendly system map" with a central drop zone prompting "Drop your design tokens here" for uploading design token files.Dark-themed browser window showing a visual system map with node panels, connecting lines, filter tags, and a small preview panel in the corner
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Home stretch starts now! 🫶 "What is the impact of replacing my typeface?" is now something that can be answered in just a couple of clicks. 🤯 This exact question would have taken 100x longer just 36hr ago.
Dark UI map showing connected nodes and panels labeled typography, font families and options, with a small mockup thumbnail in the corner.Dark UI workspace showing a node-link design system map at left and a right-side pane listing typography tokens and properties.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 16/12/2025
Wrote a piece for the @zeroheight.com blog on annotating design system components for accessibility: zeroheight.com/blog/how-to-... #a11y
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How to annotate design system components for accessibility - zeroheight
Geri Reid shares how accessibility annotations for design systems help teams document components, create reusable specs, and build inclusive products.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Day 1 of SheBuilds 🫶 I lost 5 hrs of building today to wrap up facilitating my theming design systems workshop with @smashing_conf where I teach people how to build these kinds of systems maps as a way to think through their design systems scaling challenges MANUALLY.
Dark UI workspace showing a systems map with connected cards for brand nodes (apple, berry, cherry, tangerine) and light/dark theme panels.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
First 2.5 hrs of SheBuilds 👩‍💻 1hr Kickoff call - 1 hr chatting with Lovable to develop the plan and the 1st build, fixed a couple of minor issues and have my FIRST WORKING BUILD! 30 mins documenting my progress 😻
Dark themed web app (Lovable.dev) UI showing a left chat panel with debug messages and a right canvas displaying a hierarchical systems map of connected nodes.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
If you ever want someone to ruthlessly cut scope on an MVP project, ask Claude to help you prep for a 48hr buildathon! 🙈
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
It's 48 hrs until SheBuilds starts! I'm going to share my progress learning Lovable and building an interactive system mapping tool as my project 0-1. 🫠 As a technically savvy no-coder, I'm equally excited and annoyed at how loud my inner saboteur is...
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Christmas came early in Figma ☃️ Looks like we can now import and export DTCG formatted design tokens as variables! Is it time to retire the Tokens ≠ Variables stickers? More testing is required! And no, this isn't an enterprise account. This is my freelance account on the Pro Figma plan.... 🙌
Dark Figma Variables panel showing a Color collection with two theme colors: Primary (blue #0D6EFD) and Secondary (gray #6C757D), plus import/export dialog.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Me everytime I have to use a Google doc and add images... 🤦‍♀️ Where is the AI assist for these kinds of pain points? Maybe 2026 will be the year!
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I got accepted to SheBuilds on Lovable Season 02! 🎉 Any guesses what I'll build? Wrong answers only 😜 #SheBuildsOnLovable
Smiling woman portrait centered on a colorful gradient background with "SheBuilds on Lovable" branding and "Accepted! Season 02" badge.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Did you know Systems Thinking is an academic framework backed by science? 🤔 Stoked to be teaching the FUNdamentals of Systems Thinking through a Design Systems perspective during my upcoming workshops with Smashing Conferences 😻 🔗👇
Dark themed slide titled "Systems Thinking Fundamentals" showing a circular design system diagram with labeled nodes (a–f), inputs, outputs, context and a feedback loop.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Ever wondered how you might use an LLM to document your design decisions? 🤖 I recorded my workflow using Claude Desktop and the template I shared yesterday to create the Architecture Decision Record example featured in the article. Watch the YouTube video ▶️ youtu.be/vyKG6nNixeU...
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Documenting Design Systems - Architecture Decisions Record with Claude Desktop
Ever stared at your own design system wondering "why did I do this?" 😅 Design tokens tell you WHAT the decision is, but not WHY. Architecture Decision Recor...
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Design Tokens aren't enough. While they document WHAT was decided in your design system, you still need to document WHY it was decided. 🤔 This is where an Architecture Decisions Record (ADR) comes in handy!
Dark gradient slide showing a design system diagram linking design tokens to a document preview, titled "Architecture Decisions Records capture why it was decided."
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
It's almost 2026... Why can't I paste markdown into a Google doc and have it just work? 🤬
A screenshot of a Google doc with a header written as ## [pattern or decision] which should be formatted as an H2 header in the document if It processed the markdown paste correctly.
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"Why is the primary button using the quaternary brand token? WTF is quaternary anyway?" 😳 Let's be real - we've all inherited (or created 🙈) systems with these head scratchers. They usually hit when you're new to a system and trying to figure out what decisions were made and why. The good news?
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Curious about my upcoming Theming Design Systems workshop? 🧐 Here's a sneak peek at one of the collaborative workshop files where we practice systems mapping skills to think through the classic problem of "where should things live in my Figma workspace?"
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Booking my flu shot appointment is like planning to get sick now to avoid getting even more sick later... 🤒 I'm so jealous of the folks who aren't knocked out after a vaccine, but it's still worth it! 🙌
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Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦 @samiamdesigns.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Nature's ombre 🍁 My favourite time of year to wander my neighborhood and take in magic of color changing skyscapes and trees.
A tree with leafs that are changing colors. They are mostly yellow with red and orange edges. A photo of a neighborhood focused on 
the sky at sunset with many trees that have leaves that are changing colors from green, yellow, orange and red.
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