An ongoing stream of what the Autogram team is writing, reading, and discussing.
Alex Russell breaks down the current state of front-end performance for real world users, from technical advances to usage trends and the importance of Reliance Jio’s 4G rollout across India. The picture is improving, but developers continue to burden average user devices.
A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs — as in, Windows 98 Visual Basic applications.
“This apparent lack of structure too often disguised an informal, unacknowledged and unaccountable leadership that was all the more pernicious because its very existence was denied.”
“We need to think in terms of systems, not screens. The teams that develop ‘design systems’ (a phrase I increasingly dislike) do so to gain cohesiveness and speed — not to liberate themselves to work more abstractly.”
Jeff presented Your System is a Language at UXCamp Chicago.
“What is systems design? It’s the thing that will eventually kill your project if you do it wrong, but probably not right away.”
Karen and Jeff were quoted in The Future of Building for Digital at Contentful.
Maintaining a system takes more effort than building it, so Shopify captures decisions and rationale in an experience foundation for their design system, Polaris.
As the BBC moves to hosting all of their sub-brands on a single core website, the design system must evolve to support a shared foundation.
Self-organizing teams and agile retrospectives can reinforce power dynamics and marginalize people. Inclusive facilitation means paying attention to individual needs.