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#Drift
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Design systems
Figma Dev Mode and Code Connect: what they solve and what they don't
Dev Mode and Code Connect help developers go from design to code. What each does, what plans they need, and the question neither of them answers.
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Design systems
Your AI agent does not know your design system
AI agents write UI that compiles, passes tests and quietly skips your design system. The mechanics behind it, and the two layers that keep it in check.
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Engineering
Finding hard-coded colours in a React codebase
Every hex value in a component opts it out of the design system. Search commands that find them in minutes, the false alarms to remove, and how to keep them out.
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Design systems
A design system audit in one afternoon
An honest first picture of how far your product has drifted, in one afternoon: a twelve-step checklist, the commands to run and a form for the results.
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Design systems
How to measure design system health instead of guessing
Most teams judge their design system by feel. Four signals (divergences, reach, bypasses and time to fix) give design, engineering and leadership one shared picture.
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Design systems
Why production quietly drifts from your design system
Drift between design and code rarely comes from one big mistake. Here is where it comes from, why nobody sees it and when it starts to cost real money.