Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
Tag: design systems
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Idea: Desugared Design Systems
I learned about the concept of desugaring from a lecture on programming languages, and I wonder how that would apply to design systems.
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Versioning Larva, PMC’s design system
For Larva, we are using semantic versioning with some modified definitions.
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Designgineering Chronicles: Swan Song [PiH]
The last installment of the Designgineering Chronicles. The work itself is far from over, but I am very over writing these posts.
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A Larva win and small update [WiH]
A quick share of what I consider a significant win for Larva, the design system I started at PMC that is now a very official thing at the company.
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#ShareYourDocs: Basic CSS Utility Class Generator in Larva
A bit of documentation I wrote for a Sass mixin that outputs utility classes based on a map of values.
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#ShareYourDocs: The start of Larva’s Naming Guidelines Wiki
There is a borderline overwhelming amount of documentation to be written, but gotta start somewhere! Here’s a kinda random first addition to Larva’s Naming Guidelines wiki page.
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.a-pull: A CSS algorithm for pulling one box outside another
Here’s a quick write up about a CSS algorithm we just created at PMC! It seems like it will be useful in future projects, and we now have a programmatic term to use to refer to this kind of UI design pattern.
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Sloppy Screencasts: Test-Oriented UI Development with BackstopJS / Larva Show-n-Tell
A very cool, test-oriented workflow has emerged with the introduction of Backstop JS into our design system tooling. I recorded some sloppy screencasts to show it off! Watch me struggle and make mistakes and also accomplish things.
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Designgineering Chronicles: Months 9.5-11ish?
A slightly delayed Chronicle, but no less juicy! In preparation for the kick-off of Blueberry, we are figuring out how to actually share and publish modules as the design system (named Larva) becomes a product that stands on its own.
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Designgineering Chronicles: Months 8.5-9.5
Cantaloupe, a.k.a. Deadline.com, has launched!!! This installment of the Chronicles discusses the project’s huge success, the beginnings of a design system roadmap, and an introduction to Blueberry, the next code-named redesign for PMC.
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Embryonic design system
What do you call a design system before it has published modules but after it has started providing useful tools? Naming is hard.
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Designgineering Chronicles: Months 6.5-8.5, Part 2
And here is Part 2! Read this for technical notes about how the Cantaloupe pattern architecture is working out, examples of CSS algorithms, and (for us) the solved problem of JavaScript.
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Designgineering Chronicles: Months 6.5-8.5, Part 1
It’s a month later than I would have liked, but at long last an update on project Cantaloupe which is full steam ahead on development. What’s it like to build and use a design system at the same time? In Part 1, we talk workflow, CSS utilities, and houses of cards.
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#ShareYourDocs: One-off Patterns
I do not have the time or energy to write a full blog post, so instead I will share some interesting documentation about writing one-off patterns in our in-progress design system under a hash-tag I just came up with called #ShareYourDocs.
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Notes from Clarity Conf 2018
Clarity Conference was back at the beginning of December last year, but better late than never, right? I took handwritten notes on my iPad and have (finally) transcribed them for your scanning pleasure.