Talks
Conference talks and workshop sessions on design systems, component architecture, and the quieter ideas underneath.
The Grammar of Design
Tokens, spacing, type — not paint, but grammar. When a design system is consistent, designers and developers stop arguing about choices and start speaking the same dialect. The product feels coherent without anyone forcing it.
SmashingConf 2024Design Tokens at Scale
How a 3-year-old design token system stopped being a help and started being a hazard — and the slow, named-tier migration that brought it back. Names, layers, the boring tooling that holds it together.
CSS Day 2024Components Are Communication
A component isn't a UI unit. It's a message in a bottle — written by the engineer who built it, opened by every engineer who will maintain it. This talk is about the rhetoric hiding inside a `Button`.
React Summit 2024
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