The Atlanta botanical gardens were absolutely gorgeous this past weekend 💐
alex laughnan
@alexlaughnan.com
ai & ui @ asana, cold brew enthusiast, well-formatted docs are my love language. 💜 🏳️🌈
[flirting with the drive thru attendant] mcnugget. is that irish?
What does the title #DesignEngineer mean to you? I'm putting together an article and I'd love to hear what your thoughts are, especially in relation to #DesignSystems. Boost for reach? 💜
Huge fan! We continue to drive adoption ourselves through refactoring. It promotes positive code contagion on other surfaces too!
Design system teams should be actively refactoring the codebase to drive adoption—rather than only asking others to do it. Major benefits for the system come from it too. What’s your take on this?
Them: Do one thing every day that makes you uncomfortable. Me: *gets out of bed*
Found a neat CSS trick to automatically swap between black or white text based on any arbitrary background color! With relative color syntax, you can use calc to adjust the text color depending if the background is above or below 50% lightness in the LCH color space.
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. I'm Xëla, a fold-down wall desk with built-in storage compartments and cable management.
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. hi, i’m ÿma. i’m a small, confusingly shaped part (you think?) to a thing you aren’t sure you even have any more.
Me drinking wine at dinner “mmm this white really pairs with this red”
doctor: make sure you drink plenty of fluids me: that’s literally all i drink
Some incredible memories from southern Italy this past week ☺️
Hi folks! 👋 I’m Alex and I live in San Francisco, CA. I work at asana.com and spend most of my day thinking about design systems and supporting product teams. Outside of work you can find me: sipping on a cold brew, avidly learning a foreign language and attempting to crush my latest reading goal
My phone just auto corrected "trauma dumping" to "trauma dumpling," so I painted this in case anyone would like a visual of my mental state. How's everyone else doing?