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Learning to influence without authority is the keystone leadership skill to transition from early to mid career. It becomes an even more important skill later in your career as you need to partner effectively with your peers, executives and board members.

I will walk you through how I structured variables in a comprehensive design system in under 4 days.

Learn how to design great interfaces for spatial computing apps. We'll share how your existing screen-based knowledge easily translates...

Discover the fundamentals of spatial design. Learn how to design with depth, scale, windows, and immersion, and apply best practices for...

Design systems help organize product-related knowledge and centralize it. Learn from the best how to do it – see these 8 examples.

Build and maintain design tokens faster and more accurately

Maximizing Efficiency and Streamlining Workflow with ChatGPT

Aren’t you tired of having to manually update every element of your UI design? Don’t you find it hard to maintain consistency across your…

I’ve been the first in-house UX Researcher twice, once at Meetup back in 2007 and once at Foursquare in 2012. I often talk to UX…

A look at all of the problems that arise during a job hunt and look at how we can use some new thinking and approaches to short circuit this problem and get better results.

Design tokens are mainly used for “core” properties (colors, typography, spacing, etc). But trust me, they can do much more than just this.

An in-depth guide to designing more accessible search bars.

Creating a high-quality icon family requires a thoughtful approach, a trained eye, and a lot of practice. Below, I’ll illustrate the…

If you understand the basics of the business model and strategies in which you’re working, you’ll be able to spend less time explaining the value of design, more time actually designing, and increase your credibility.

A short note about the power of Figma components, using instances and states.

A handy guide and library of different data visualization techniques, tools, and a learning resource for data visualization.

A detailed overview for designing digital products

Learn how to organize, structure, and work with components in Figma to improve your design workflow.

Quit making developers crazy and learn the naming conventions that will save your design system.

In this article I will show you all the cool things people are doing to document design tokens. Hopefully, you will learn something new you can take back to your design system. Before we get started, a few quick notes.

A guide for using research when (or before) starting to build a design system.

The separation isn’t blurry as most people make it out to be. Here’s why.

In this talk, Benjamin Wilkins, Design Technologist at Airbnb touches on the internationalization and localization of design elements, and how might we design with consistency for multiple interface targets like Android, iOS, Virtual Reality, or even Natural Language interfaces. Join our events in SF or see more talks on www.rethinkhq.com

The effort required to build a design system is tiny compared to the effort required to maintain it.

Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app

The UX Process is Confusing, Even to Most Designers

The Segment team's latest thinking on all things data, product, marketing, and growth.

Evergreen - Segment's UI Component Library https://evergreen.surge.sh/ https://github.com/segmentio/evergreen