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16 October 2026

Can your design system go dark by Friday?

A design system that lives only in Figma looks great until someone asks for a new brand or for dark mode. Notes on building one out of variables, where design and code read the same values, and how it saved a project when new white labels and dark mode arrived with almost no development time.
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13 May 2026

Do you remember WannaCry?

How a hunch about an old hard drive saved a company from ransomware, and why creative problem solving isn't only for creative fields.
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3 February 2021

What the hell are full-stack designers?

Have you ever heard the term "full-stack developer"? Sure! But have you ever heard the term "full-stack designer"? In computer science, the term "full-stack" usually applies to software or web developers who have the skills to work both on the client side (front end) and on the server side (back end), including the database and the server set-up. In this way, a single person covers all the stacks of the development process and the technologies it uses. But what are those stacks when it comes to a full-stack designer?
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16 January 2019

Unless divergent, you're not creative

Many would say that the most important characteristic in the development of the human species is intelligence. It's true. The capacity to analyze and adapt brought us from a monkey to a human, and from a human to a Communist... I meant to the top of the food chain.
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