blog.damato.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.

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?

I've been on a journey to understand the way we think of space within a digital interface and I think I've reached a point of understanding that might help shift traditional approaches to something more systematic.

I've been using a technique for a few years which passively fetches a web component definition once it is discovered on a page.