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Dan Donald

@hereinthehive.bsky.social

Design System Consultant. Design, Dev & Product. Prev zeroheight, Auto Trader, BBC All about design systems, design tokens, product design and occasionally making music at @thesedeadmachines.bsky.social

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Dan Donald@hereinthehive.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s really interesting being in [massive global financial institution]. It’s kind of what I expected and I know culturally, I’m not a fit…but I get to own an interesting space and see what can be done within constraints, so kind of enjoying that

Dan Donald@hereinthehive.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s become a double-edged sword, the ‘superpowers’ I feel AI gives me. Now random obsessions or side quests become real, which is a good and a bad thing! I’m not far off getting testers on one product but got distracted by a bigger project but then segued from that to make another thing 😂

Dan Donald@hereinthehive.bsky.social · 4mo ago

After hearing a talk David Hawdale did a little while ago around synthetic user testing, I left with a bee in my bonnet. I could see the space it could be useful in but very aware of the limitations with how LLMs work. I mulled on it, researched and came up with some ideas

SpareBrain — sense-check it before you ship it

You're about to spend six weeks building something. Paste it and fifteen simulated strangers read it — two minutes later you get the argument they had about it.

sparebrain.com

Dan Donald@hereinthehive.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Experiment dictated to Claude Code on my phone one evening and refined the morning after The goal is to help less technical people get a set-up that helps them along based on their needs. So dynamically generates skills and agents based on conversational discovery github.com/hereinthehiv...

GitHub - hereinthehive/kickstart: A Claude Code starter — fork, run /onboarding, and Claude sets itself up for your project

A Claude Code starter — fork, run /onboarding, and Claude sets itself up for your project - hereinthehive/kickstart

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Oliver Lindberg@oliverlindberg.com · 11mo ago

In design systems, change is the only constant. And thinking ahead to life after the release of our first components can positively impact how we start. Check out @hereinthehive.bsky.social's article for the @zeroheight.com blog: zeroheight.com/blog/design-...

Design system change management: Change is the only constant - zeroheight

Dan Donald provides practical guidance for managing change in design systems — triage, naming, workflows, and communication.

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Shaun Bent@shaunbent.co.uk · 11mo ago

A few years back, I nearly wrote "The Fallacy of Federated Design Systems." Then @nathanacurtis.bsky.social beat me to it. But what happens when you try it anyway? At Spotify, I watched federated fail twice, resulting in a huge number of barely reused components and damaged trust in design systems.

Why Federated Design Systems Keep Failing

Why do federated design systems keep failing? I watched it happen twice at Spotify. Here's what actually happened, where they broke down, and why centralised models usually work better.

shaunbent.co.uk

Dan Donald@hereinthehive.bsky.social · last yr.

With the end of my current contract at Gymshark coming to an end in Feb…and with the holidays inbetween, I’m starting to put the feelings out for a potential next gig Give me a shout if you’re up for a chat!