Caroline Horn
@curiouschaos.com
Designing in browser, aka designer-engineer dedicated to design systems and mostly nerding out on CSS and documentation. Now @ Ramp, formerly @ Elastic 🔗 curiouschaos.com 🌎 DMV
Episode 078 of The Question is live! Kacey Wood joins me to dig into the psychology of #designsystems work: reactance, pushback, and how you convince people without triggering their defenses. Answer before Wed 5pm ET and join Thursday's deep dive: bit.ly/answerTheQue...
How do you teach craft? Where does it come from? I asked this to @curiouschaos.com at the end of Wireframe Live yesterday and here's her answer: "The foundational piece ... is that the person cares." 💡 What a great insight. I truly believe this is the thing that is separating us from the LLMs.
Caroline Horn@curiouschaos.com · last mo.Chatting with @donnie.damato.design is the ultimate systems geek out session. I honestly loved this. Even though my "passion hives" were showing.
Chatting with @donnie.damato.design is the ultimate systems geek out session. I honestly loved this. Even though my "passion hives" were showing.
Place of Craft w/ Caroline Horn | Wireframe Live
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Excited to sit down and chat with *the* @donnie.damato.design tomorrow! Get ready for strong opinions and cynical views. 😂
Donnie D'Amato@donnie.damato.design · last mo.This just in! 📣 We'll have @danabra.mov scheduled to be a guest on the Wireframe this Friday! We have other exciting guests this week like @carolinehorn.bsky.social and @michaelwarren.dev! Subscribe to get notified when they go live at 5pm ET. wireframe.ds.house www.youtube.com/@designsysho...
My current vibes have become more and more just "own your own shit". Like, are you asking for permission or a scapegoat?
Hot take: collapsible UI sections should mostly be reserved for things which are initially collapsed. Collapsing to avoid scrolling is slower than scrolling
A huge archive of old websites from the older days that would have otherwise vanished or been taken over by ads. theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost/
The Sites We Lost
A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
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Rather than the same old boring internet pranks, I thought I'd build something more fun this April Fools. CSS or BS. Can you tell your CSS properties names from BS? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs
CSS or BS?
Think you know CSS? Real property or made-up nonsense? 20 rounds. No mercy.
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Ugh! Im so tired of watching men pressuring women about having children by saying "you'd be a great mother". She wasnt arguing that! And like... no shit! But you missed the flipping point.
I finally updated my website to something at least somewhat pleasing. curiouschaos.com (Still vanilla HTML, no frameworks)
Would you like to work with me? 👋🏻 I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team at Kesko and we’re looking for a nice & talented designer/developer to join us. arielsalminen.com/2026/hiring-...
Hiring a Design Engineer for Kesko Design System
Hi 👋🏻, I’m Arielle, a Design Systems Architect working with Kesko. I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team in the organization and we’re looking for an experienced Design ...
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Robocalls now starting off by "clearing their throat". I still ain't buyin it!
Design systems are so much more than tokens! (and components)
My toxic trait is thinking that every compliment and congratulation is disingenuous or condescending
I'm having my very own @nerdy.dev moment by beating CSS at its own game.... Yes, you can use container queries with auto height elements! I gotta write this down...
Seriously though, its not as big of a story as NYC, but Virginia flipped 15! seats yesterday including the Governor, Lt Gov, and AG. We went from barely holding a 51 majority in the state house to 63! Take note!
Them: What's the standard for this? Me: This Them: I don't like the standard, can we change it? Me: For what? Them: For this custom thing Me: We dont have a standard for that custom thing Them: Then what should be standard for this custom thing? Me: Its custom, go talk to who made it! #designsystems
Im calling it. It's officially cider season! 🍎
a group of people toasting with mason jars of apple cider .
Alt: a group of people toasting with mason jars of apple cider .
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Here here! If there's anything 25 years of coding CSS has taught me is that the road to the present is filled with ways to write CSS that no longer exist and have died off. Regular ol' CSS is a constant that will always work, and will always be the most valuable skill. Hell, it's never been better.
I know tailwind already gets so much flak, but here's some more... It's failing our young developers. They're not actually learning CSS. CSS is transferable. Tailwind is not. This is my hill.
How do folks handle education around the topic of truncation? I find this is the fallback for designers who want "prettier" layouts and engineers implementing "responsive" design. How do you show them how terrible the UX of it is? Or force them to think through how users access the full content?
Hi 👋 Finally joined Bluesky! I know some of the design systems folks are here. Would love to connect and swap ideas. #designsystems
Contribution in design systems is mostly people applying a go faster stripe to their own car and then asking Honda to include it as standard.
I'm hiring, again! I'm looking for a strong (senior+) design-engineer (full 50/50 split) to join our design system team. Come bring the craft back to UI design!
Senior Design-Engineer | Design Systems
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