blog.damato.design

Colors don't solve problems

Color is one of the least important facets of user interface design and the process of chooing colors should be avoided for as long as possible in favor of much more important explorations.
Feeding trolls

They say that you aren't successful until people begin to criticize your work. I revisit the responses to one of my hotest takes and provide my commentary and rebuttal.
Dynamic Storybook

I revisit a Storybook approach I used a few years ago to help visualize all my components' configurations at once. And why its not recommended in modern Storybook versions.
No more modals

There's a trend in design that more and more experiences are being put into a modal. We'll explore this as a pattern and why we should often reconsider our decision to use them.
Against atomic design

The concept of atomic design has swept through the design community over the years; being the basis for many component library approaches. However, there's something about it that is more harmful than helpful.
Tokens as intents

Design tokens are ubiquitous in design systems and allow for individual values to be reused with a single name. What should that naming system be?