A design systems practitioner shares practical thinking on adoption planning, incremental rollout and the realities of consuming versus building design systems, drawn from consultancy and past work at Nordhealth and zeroheight. The excerpts also cover the blog's move to independent hosting and new ways to follow it via the social web.
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Murphy Trueman writes essays on design systems, governance and organisational practice, including permissions for AI agents, the trap of copied patterns in measurement, and writing style in an era of AI-suspicion. The posts combine personal experience with concrete examples, such as wrapper components that inflate adoption metrics.
A design systems newsletter offering practical explanations for designers working with engineering concepts like JSON, MCP, and AI tooling, plus thoughtful takes on design token architecture. Readers get approachable, hands-on guidance on bridging design and code, written with a personal voice drawn from real team experiences.
A personal blog and portfolio from an accessibility specialist covering design system annotations, accessibility practice, and reflections on work and writing. Readers get practical experiments and lessons from real design system work alongside personal essays and curated reading recommendations.
A product designer's portfolio of detailed case studies covering consulting and director-level design work on subscription, ad-tech and design system projects. Each entry explains the role, contributions, decisions and results.
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