Nathan A Curtis

A dubious inclusion for sure. At least it wasn’t something as obscure as something like “Word that could also all start with DRE.” Those really bug me.

Sure, green and purple were a bit of a stretch, but how is that any less normal than usual?

I was surprised and a leery when I learned that’s the format Figma chose to return results from their MCP server, and wondered if that was a broader emerging reality.

That seems very crude for designs already encoded with a richer design token vocabulary.

If all these tools norm on Tailwind, does that anoint Tailwind as the de facto language of styling? If so, what effect does that have on design systems?

Caught a couple Banksys in Park City, Utah

I just got called the "Dungeon Master of Design Systems" by a client collaborator. Not sure how to take that one, but sure, let's go on a quest and I'll be your guide!

Figma Created with Figma

I've shared this before, but it's awesome.

Building Smart Layouts, slides from @ishadeed.com's recent talk @cssday.nl

www.figma.com/deck/NewdIWN...

#CSS #FrontEnd #WebDev #WebDesign

Table comparing code and Figma approaches to enum/variant props.

I'm diving perhaps too deep as I develop teaching materials for UI Component Props. I'm sensing I could do a whole conference talk on tips and tricks for solely enum/variant props.

I have been running a 90min workshop on that for ~5-7 yrs, would be happy to compare notes.

Planning what?
Objectives/increment-based things?
Big features/capabilities?
A generational shift?
Team growth/shifts?

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

e. e. cummings

I'm familiar coding best practices for with Web Components and React when it comes to composition and slots. I'm not much at all with SwiftUI. What resources best explain the equivalent practices for slots on SwiftUI?

At @intodesignsystems.bsky.social in a couple weeks, I can't wait to present the various tools I use to communicate component architecture ideas in Figma, including props, enums and layers I combine into an overall "API sketch."

I found @katielangerman.bsky.social's spreadsheets in her Config 2025 Connecting Code and Craft talk very similar to my token taxonomy efforts: define 'em, transform 'em, and map 'em to migrate production.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l6E...

I am so distracted today by this huge event. So much anticipation. So many exciting things I have waited so long to see.

I'm talking about Arsenal vs PSG, people. Go Gunners.

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@inbn.dev Feature request: I'd really value something that eases copying all the links to systems of a single component (like Avatar). Right now, I inspect source, paste the UL element, and extract <A>'s hrefs. That's tedious :)

Spectacular Component Props, Layout and Slots — In-person workshops If you’re making components other people reuse, you’re expected to make implementing interfaces easily configurable and exceedingly flexible. Every component is different, with subtle variation. Yet t...

See you there?

Workshop 1
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Workshop 2
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One Smashing Conferences event, two Spectacular Components workshops! I'll be leading TWO full day workshops in New York, NY June 23 and 24. The first digs into component structure, purpose, anatomy and styling with design token, the other digs into props, layout and slots.

Curious, have you seen folks use your index to source examples and analyze them via AI? I just fed all the Tabs links to do a prop analysis, for example...

Why? Breaking isn’t necessarily bad, depending on context. Semver is just a way to communicate change.

In town for spring break and college visits, a stop at Edmonds Oast Brewery for the Real Madrid match, and I won a @charsenal.com raffle for @arsenalfc.bsky.social merch. Woot! Great community, go Gunners!

Could we narrow this to just "Design tokens?"

Actually, I was extending the joke that the CSS should also be in the JavaScript course

Yeah, kinda makes me wonder why CSS is handled in a separate course too.

we're at zero.

- ~80 tabs gone through
- 13 links added to the hopper.
- lots of your time saved.

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Search is a design solution.

This is far more likely to be solved by pattern detecting machines before humans bother to put in the time.

This requires a massive prerequisite: mortar. And virtually no team I have seen is interested is systems of layout and space that go beyond the most primitive of space tokens. It’s not about the pieces, it’s how they fit together.