An ongoing stream of what the Autogram team is writing, reading, and discussing.
Jeff talks about pattern wise, system foolish.
Design systems are not pattern libraries, and abandoning them for “experimental” AI won’t free us from constraints.
Jeff appeared in Putting the Language Back in Your Patterns at Philly JAMstack.
Content engineering expert Mike Wills shares important lessons from an enterprise-scale project where omnichannel content was structured around the compositional needs of the company’s design system. Shifting to semantic structures that emphasized the content’s meaning and purpose made remixing and adaptation possible.
Jeff was interviewed on episode 30 of Dan Brown’s A Lens A Day.
Ethan was interviewed on a responsive design episode of The TEN7 Podcast.
Tools like design systems, content architecture, and editorial guides are often built by different teams in large organizations. This post from a member of the Google Play team explains how they built a framework that informed all three artifacts — from UX microcopy like error messages, to feature descriptions, to narratives and complex UX interactions.
Jeff was interviewed on a data and content modeling episode of Jaden Baptista’s Stream.
Slowly but surely, the gap between “remote workshop facilitation” and “Twitch Streaming” continues to narrow. The insightful team that wrote Unlocking The Magic of Facilitation has posted a collection of tips for zoom workshop wrangling from their summer Brain Jam. Most of them rely on a Stream Deck, but almost any tool that can record and trigger macros can accomplish similar feats.
Systems design and organizational structure are linked, to be sure. But what is Conway’s law, and how has it been interpreted over the years?
Eric Bailey makes his case against custom CSS mouse cursors, then segues — exploring the complex interplay between design goals and digital accessibility. “Making the choice that something ‘is good enough for the majority of my users’ makes sweeping assumptions about who is visiting your website or web app and why, and actively discriminates.”