UX and product designer, author of Design Systems smashingmagazine.com/design-……
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21 Jul 2020
For anyone who wants to lean content design, GDS team are doing free online course:
21 Jul 2020
If you’re thinking about a career in content design, join the online course by the @GDSTeam, designers of the UK’s GOV.UK website.
You'll explore the role in-depth and learn the fundamentals of creating user-centered content: ow.ly/ZLQJ50ADSaX
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It's hard to express how incredibly grateful I am for the existence of the Readability Guidelines which I refer to on pretty much a daily basis.
Evidence based, clear, beautiful.
#ReadabilityGuidelines #ContentDesign @ContentDesignLN
readabilityguidelines.co.uk/
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One of the sections for my upcoming book is going to be on the future of design systems. I'd love to crowd-source some other opinions besides mine on that topic. If you're cool with potentially being quoted, share here. Might be interesting to just to read the comments, too. 📓👩🏻🏫
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I love how giffgaff's design system documentation shows the signature brand elements together.
From shapes and textures to borders and illustrations – it's great to see, at a glance, the ways to make something seem "giffgaffy".
giffgaff.design/
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16 Dec 2019
How to manage your Design Tokens with Style Dictionary by @areaweb 👈Great useful read in case you missed it earlier: link.medium.com/7OdaOG0wh2
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24 Sep 2019
Hi y’all! I’m so excited to share that I’ve written a book about one of my favorite topics: design systems, brand expression, and creativity.
📕 Coming soon from @abookapart.
abookapart.com/products/expr…
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18 Sep 2019
It's nice to stumble across slightly more quirky and creative design system documentation sites.
barista.dynatrace.com/
via @StuRobson
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Alla Kholmatova retweeted
16 Sep 2019
🆕 Where to put buttons on forms
adamsilver.io/articles/where…
Thanks a lot to the brilliant @cjforms for helping me write this. 🙌
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Most welcoming and supportive community.
2 Sep 2019
I'm a member of @joinelpha, where women in #tech talk candidly online. Join me: elpha.com/invite/from-Paulin… :) #womenintech #femalefounders #startups
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One thing we learned while working on @tilioapp is that people write in so many different ways. In his research, linguist Daniel Chandler categorized them into four main strategies.
Which approach do you use the most?
medium.com/tilio/four-writin…
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Alla Kholmatova retweeted
25 Mar 2019
When I was little I was determined to always protect nature, stand against 'bad people' to save forests, animals, wilderness. 🌳🌱🦝🦉
As I grew up my convictions slowly faded, and I've done literally nothing.
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20 Aug 2019
Do you write in short bursts when inspiration strikes? Do you have a collection of notes that you want to turn into an article or a book?
Well, @luke__john and I are working on a tool that's maybe just perfect for the job!
Let us know your thoughts 😊👇
tilio.app
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18 Aug 2019
I love how the design documentation is presented as a narrative in the new Guardian digital design style guide, great idea 👍
design.theguardian.com
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Alla Kholmatova retweeted
1 Jul 2019
My book “Practical UI Patterns for Design Systems” is OUT NOW 🎉 It's nearly 300 pages of UX design essentials. If you know someone who might find it useful or you're looking for design reading yourself, please help me spread the word! didoesdigital.com/project/bo…
ALT Book cover of Practical UI Patterns for Design Systems: Fast-Track Interaction Design for a Seamless User Experience by Diana MacDonald
ALT Screenshot of Practical UI Patterns for Design Systems by Diana MacDonald in iBooks, showing a photo of a peacock displaying its train.
ALT Screenshot of Practical UI Patterns for Design Systems ebook, showing a photo of a paper cranes by Rebecca Freeman.
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29 Jun 2019
Had the most amazing time at the #PatternsDay, catching up with old friends over slightly mad conversations. Huge thanks to @adactio and @clearleft for putting together such warm and welcoming event, and to all the attendees and speakers for making it so special ❤️
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Alla Kholmatova retweeted
27 Jun 2019
Since there is so much interest in this, I made a graphic to round up the different CSS properties that are coming to help us style underlines. Some work in some browsers today. All have fantastic fallbacks, so you can start using them now. (They do NOT break anything in IE11!)
ALT Examples of the visual results of `text-underline-offset`, `text-decoration-thickness`, `text-decoration-skip-ink`, plus a note about `text-decoration-color` and the fact all these tools also work for overlines and sidelines.
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18 Jun 2019
Of all the work your team invests in design systems, what percentage of time would you estimate is lost, wasted, or under-utilised?
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146 votes • Final results
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17 Apr 2019
Techniques for data visualization for large and small screens by @NadiehBremer visualcinnamon.com/2019/04/m…
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Alla Kholmatova retweeted
1 Apr 2019
Our Planet—Netflix’s answer to Planet Earth—is a big-budget wildlife documentary that *finally* forces viewers to acknowledge their complicity in the decline of nature, *throughout* each episode. It’s a hugely important shift. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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Papyrus! Can't believe it took me so long to stumble upon this youtube.com/watch?time_conti…
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