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Design system primitives
How to supercharge your design system and empower adopters with basic building blocks hooked into your design tokens
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Josh Cusick
Grant Blakeman: Design Engineer
Design tooling, Figma plugins, automation, and more
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Josh Cusick
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Grant Blakeman
Design systems should do less
Why design systems should cover less scope, not more
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Josh Cusick

August 2024

Tiff Roberts: Design Systems Designer
Tiff Roberts worked on and led design system efforts at Chase, Wells Fargo, and CNN
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Josh Cusick
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Tiffany Roberts
Governing design systems
Common governance models, pitfalls, and solutions
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Josh Cusick
Syncing icons in Figma
How we used Figma's REST API to supercharge our icon workflow
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Josh Cusick
 and 
Nick Saunders
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Bridging the design/engineering gap
How designers and engineers can collaborate for better design systems
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Josh Cusick
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Exploring design tokens
A guide to streamlining design systems and enhancing scalability
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Josh Cusick
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February 2024

Setting yourself up for success
Elevating your portfolio, networking, and interviews
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Josh Cusick

October 2023

Naming things
Tips for naming components, layers, and props in your design system
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Josh Cusick
Design better components
Tips for enhancing your component design and improved collaboration with engineers
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Josh Cusick

September 2023

Growing my career
How I grew my career in product design and you can too
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Josh Cusick
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