Adam sedwick
@asedwick.bsky.social
Design and Product Ops Lead, Design Systems, Accessibility, and all things “front of the front-end”.
Dive into the future of design systems! 🚀 Check out Adam Sedwick's 26 Figma tips to scale up your game by 2026. From DesignOps to seamless engineering partnerships, it's all here! https://www.zeroheight.com/blog/building-scalable-design-systems-with-figma-26-tips-for-2026/
Kick of 2026 with 26 tips covering... 🔥 Figma variables, styles, and components 🪢 Design ops 📄 Documentation and onboarding 💻 Partnering with engineering If you're working on #designsystems in #figma you're going to want to check this one out! zeroheight.com/blog/buildin...
Building scalable design systems with Figma: 26 tips for 2026 - zeroheight
Adam Sedwick shares 26 practical Figma tooling tips for building scalable design systems – variables, documentation and onboarding, and partnering with engineering.
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Yo, it feels pretty great to be featured on the @zeroheight.com blog homepage along with the amazing @resource11.bsky.social and @gerireid.com! Check out "The System Stack" on the Zeroheigt blog here: zeroheight.com/blog/ You can find my article here: zeroheight.com/blog/using-c...
Design systems aren’t just about keeping everything looking the same; they’re about making things flexible enough to handle whatever gets thrown at them. Read about how I handle these challenges with Tokens, Composition, and Configuration on the @frontendmasters.com blog!
Exploring Multi-Brand Systems with Tokens and Composability
Exploring a Card component made hyper flexible though use of easily changeable custom properties, props, and slots.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
This is going to be incredibly useful! I can’t wait to drop yet another JS library because we can accomplish the same thing with only CSS. Reducing dependencies sold always be celebrated!
Una Kravets@una.im · 8mo agoAbout to have CSS ANCHOR POSITIONING FULLY CROSS-BROWSER!!
Was truly a pleasure to work with @oliverlindberg.com and write this for the @zeroheight.com blog! Btw its my birthday 🎂! It’d be a great gift if you decided to give this a read today.
Oliver Lindberg@oliverlindberg.com · 9mo agoIn this article, @asedwick.bsky.social introduces the concept of "composability over inheritance" to scale design systems: zeroheight.com/blog/using-c... Check it out on the @zeroheight.com blog and learn how to use this approach in component code and within Figma.
I wrote a piece for Zeroheight on why composability wins over inheritance when it comes to building systems that actually work for teams. Check it out! 👉 zeroheight.com/blog/using-c... #DesignSystems #Figma #DesignOps
Using composability over inheritance to scale design systems - zeroheight
Adam Sedwick explains why you should choose composability over inheritance to scale design systems, turning them into a resilient toolkit teams actually use.
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Hey folks! I got to join the layoff club recently I’m open to for roles related to design systems, operations, and leadership. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please send me a message or comment below. I’d love to reconnect. #OpenToWork
We’re back baby! Ep 1, S2 of Systems of Harm just dropped and we’re kicking off this series with design systems and accessibility specialist @gerireid.com Tune in wherever you get your podcasts to hear us natter about design systems and activism Apple: apple.co/42Zhx1s RSS: bit.ly/43gtLkB
Design systems and activism with Geri Reid
Podcast Episode · Systems of Harm · 01/10/2025 · 53m
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New course from @joshwcomeau.com is live! Can definitely recommend his work, it's always amazing and informative.
Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com · 11mo agoWe’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉 whimsy.joshwcomeau.com I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄
🦊 I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...
Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
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a man is looking into a car trunk and the word adam is on the bottom .
ALT: a man is looking into a car trunk and the word adam is on the bottom .
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Sara Joy ☠️@sjoy.lol · 12mo agoWhat GIF pops up when you type your name? (I cheated and picked the second one because the first was the screaming prairie dog GIF that seems to exist for every name)
Designer friends, I'm looking for some insights and could use your help! What have you found to be the most useful to you (or your team) when it comes to Figma file or project organization? What best facilitates collaboration between multiple people with different working styles?
Sometimes I see things we (collectively in the UI design field) do and it really reminds me how we really lost the plot. Like, what are we even doing anymore.
Nathan Lawson@nathanlawsn.com · last yr.yikes
Accessibility is more important than whatever aesthetic you’re going for with some custom typeface
having worked on creating interactive type specimens during my tenure at Monotype, I'm always a bit partial to them, this one's delicious. gt-standard.com
GT Standard
GT Standard is a contemporary response to the modernist pursuit of standardization. The typeface is systematic yet expressive, built for clarity, adaptability, and precision across every scale and med...
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If you ever find yourself struggling with impostor syndrome, just remember that David Zaslav made $52 million last year to slowly come to the conclusion that, actually, HBO is a good brand
⚙️ New CSS Generator! Save this link for the future. A tool to easily convert any SVG shape into a CSS one in no time. Powered by the new shape() function! 🤩 css-generators.com/svg-to-css/ ✅ Single-element ✅ Responsive ✅ No more ViewBox headaches
SVG to CSS Shape Converter
A simple tool to transform an SVG shape into a CSS shape. Get a modern and optimized code in no time!.
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Let's play a game with `document.querySelectorAll` 617 div elements. 84 elements with aria-label. All 84 are divs. No button/role=button elements. 12 anchor/role=link elements. 5 role=link elements. All 5 are divs. 5 elements with tabindex. All 5 are divs. 7 elements with href. 5 are divs.
![Side by side of the quoted post's linked website and the browser Console. Console shows document.querySelectorAll('div[aria-label]') has 84 results; document.querySelectorAll('[aria-label]') has 84 results.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6pjsxq4f4wvihelm4lphbk5e/bafkreia2cxmnycbmn6wxr3aqzmjbkrivfkx3fgixrcf5rxfc2bcyr63pmq)
![Side by side of the quoted post's linked website and the browser Console. Console shows document.querySelectorAll('button,[role=button]') has 0 results; document.querySelectorAll('a,[role=link]') has 12 results; document.querySelectorAll('[role=link]') has 5 results; document.querySelectorAll('div[role=link]') has 5 results.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6pjsxq4f4wvihelm4lphbk5e/bafkreiadut6tnjhqn4dvjq25gyfrmla6d5eognh5fr5mqzwvwsgbnerzha)
![Side by side of the quoted post's linked website and the browser Console. Console shows document.querySelectorAll('[tabindex]') has 5 results; document.querySelectorAll('[href]') has 7 results; document.querySelectorAll('div[href]') has 5 results.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6pjsxq4f4wvihelm4lphbk5e/bafkreiddgebtfwg3fitgcv7f4pgazpipyxor4u2pbllypagp6mxwkpmv6i)
Joe Lanman@joelanman.com · last yr.wooahh Figma's new Sites thing produces no semantic HTML at all. Every single element is a div. Incredibly inaccessible Example: plugin-value-scrum.figma.site
Just so you’re aware, if you wear glasses, that’s a mobility aid and you’re disabled. Glasses are just so normalized that most people don’t see it as such. Imagine if most mobility aids were that way. Imagine how much more respect disabled people would get. It’s completely possible.
Couldn’t find a design systems webring, so I created one. Feel free to join if you’re into design systems and want to add some 90s vibes on your website: design-system.club *content and styling work-in-progress, PRs welcome*
There it is! Finally, a real solution for how to style all of the HTML form controls using your own custom CSS to change anything — building on an interoperable UA set of defaults. First, styling the in-page part of controls + the popover for <select>. (Later we’ll do popovers for more things.)
HTML, CSS, JS & A11y course stack: - HTML For People by @blakewatson.com: htmlforpeople.com - Complete CSS by @piccalil.li: complete-css.com - Joy For JavaScript Developers by @joshwcomeau.com: www.joyforjs.com - Practical Accessibility by @sarasoueidan.com: practical-accessibility.today
The Practical Accessibility Course
A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today
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Always love Josh's posts and this one is no exception. Wonderful interactive examples and details galore. Go check this one out!
Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com · 2y agoJust hit the “publish” button on a brand-new blog post! ⭐ This one shares the killer pattern I find myself using over and over with container queries: responding *within* media queries to adapt to the new container size. Once you start using this trick, you’ll see opportunities for it all over. 😄
