Mina Markham
American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.
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Their wordsDesign systems teams are perfect for those who enjoy doing architectural work and who straddle the line between designer and developer.
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Refactoring for its own sake can lead to accusations of misused time and lack of results.
Their wordsRefactoring for the sake of refactoring can easily lead to accusations of misused time and lack of results.
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Design system documentation must be easy to keep up-to-date to prevent it from becoming obsolete.
Their wordsThe key is to create a frictionless way to keep the documentation up-to-date, otherwise no one will contribute to it, and in turn, it will become obsolete and useless.
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsOne of our earliest goals was to decouple the website from the "web app" in order to streamline and simplify our codebase.
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Their wordsWith CSS Grid, we're able to remove the extra markup needed to simulate a grid, and simply create one natively.
- 13 months earlier
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Their wordsA design system's purpose is to provide consistent, tested and reusable solutions for a common UX problem.
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Their wordsA design system is only as good as its documentation, so it was really important that I created a site that was both easy for my team to use and for me to keep updated.