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Jun 10
Guilty of this many times over
The most enjoyable mistake in design engineering: you build something lovely, then go looking for a reason to ship it.
A designer hands off, and the handoff is a checkpoint. When you do both jobs, there's no checkpoint. You build first and reason later.
But reasoning after the fact isn't reasoning, it's defence.
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Jun 8
Wrote my own thoughts why writing is so important for design.
AI deceives us into believing the thinking has been done with high-fidelity prototypes. We have to figure it out ourselves first, without delegating the understanding.
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It's been fun talking with Karl about this. I'm incredibly inspired by his approach to work - and definitely taking some of these methodologies forward
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Luke Finch retweeted
May 6
People think design is about how it looks.
It’s really about a deep and fundamental commitment to replying to your Slacks, Figma comments, Linear comments, emails, hopping on a quick call then doing all that one more time whoops times up see you at the craft factory tomorrow
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Jan 31
Figma make is insane once you've figured out how to get your design system in there.
I spent a crazy amount of time this week getting it working and ran into a few hiccups. I published my adivce here for you all.
Build → Publish → Install → Done
finchy.medium.com/how-to-get…
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17 Dec 2025
This has the foundations for so many potential interesting ways of working – really curious to see where this goes.
17 Dec 2025
I've been tinkering away with a live design <> code, desktop app where you can select any element in the DOM and it takes you straight to the source code.
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Luke Finch retweeted
17 Dec 2025
I've been tinkering away with a live design <> code, desktop app where you can select any element in the DOM and it takes you straight to the source code.
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3 Dec 2024
Interesting iconography choice @NotionHQ
ALT The icon for API on notion.com looks like an anus - it's an asterisk nestled gracefully between two curly braces
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9 Oct 2024
Designers, this is your burnout cure.
Spend time enjoying design again.
9 Oct 2024
it's been awhile since I've thrown down some shapes and textures in figgy. this was fun.
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4 Oct 2024
Thanks Josh for such flattering photos - hope you got some enjoyable takeaways between the tech issues and heartbreak
Next we have @LC_Finch talking about design tokens. #Converge2024
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4 Oct 2024
Thanks for having me @zeroheight - converge was a warm hug of design systems content!
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26 Sep 2024
Cooking up some new UI things - reckon this could be the next big aesthetic trend.
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8 Sep 2024
Friendly word of warning:
This will screw with style dictionary / terrazzo - if you're compiling variables for use in other languages hyphens in variable names get removed for camelCasing and go all over the place in kebab-case
Because most sizes use REM but variables don't support dynamic values, I think the best bet is to create a primitive size collection using REM naming, but use fixed values from the root font size (14px)
Another curveball is that you can't use . in variable names, so I'm using -
ALT Screenshot of the Figma variables setup for the REM idea
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28 Aug 2024
Just had a lovely chat with @_hraymond about my upcoming talk for Converge, and also in a meta-way his talk about writing better talks.
Exciting stuff coming to your eyeballs and earballs
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4 Aug 2024
I get that money is tight for some folks right now, but what's the deal with everyone turning personal projects into revenue streams? What happened to just doing things for the love of making and learning?
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11 Jul 2024
One of the main benefits I see for design tokens, beyond automation efficiencies, is in saving time and money by giving designers confidence they're applying the correct design decision for the context they're designing in.
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