Writing

Short notes and longer essays on design systems, design tokens and building with AI.

I learned design systems on a pasteboard

What years of production design taught me about token systems, and how a side project making hand-bound baseball scorebooks brought me full circle.Essay5 min read Oct 2026

When a plan meets reality

My design tokens were supposed to sync both ways with Figma. Then I checked the price tag.Note1 min read Sep 2026

A design token name is a sentence

How the three tiers in my token system turn every name into a sentence that reads left to right.Note1 min read