What Mina Markham thinks about design
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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4 dated positions, 2016 to 2017, in their own words. Our reading of what Mina Markham has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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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Our readingDesign 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.
- 16 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.