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May 18

Don’t Build Software

An unorthodox but whole-hearted message to all C-level people everywhere. — Software is eating the world. — Marc Andreessen, “Why Software Is Eating the World” (2011) In business, survival is neither guaranteed, nor mandatory. Does your organizational strategy clearly include the production of novel software and realizing value through it? No? Don’t build software. Is your market de facto software? No…

Technology

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Don’t Build Software
Don’t Build Software
Technology

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Mar 26

Software Delivery That Makes Sense

The decline and possible restoration of reason in organizations that make software against their will or better judgment. — Now that every company is a software company, recent discussions with people around me (including those not in the software business) made me rediscover the abysmal state that software delivery is in, at many places. This article will share some of my reflections on that, as well as let me…

Software Development

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Software Delivery That Makes Sense
Software Delivery That Makes Sense
Software Development

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Better Programming

·Feb 22

Just Write Dumb, Boring, Predictable Code

Even a giant Hong Kong-style apartment building is just an aggregation of hundreds of tiny little apartments — The one belief every developer needs to debunk is that “my system is so complicated!” I really, honestly question that it is all that complicated. Is that “complicatedness” an outcome of poor structure, mental models, solutioning? Or is it inherently complex and multi-faceted? …

Software Development

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Just Write Dumb, Boring, Predictable Code
Just Write Dumb, Boring, Predictable Code
Software Development

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May 20, 2022

Things I learned and will never do again

2021 edition. — These are some notes from a personal notebook of mine dated 2021. I believe it is important to always be critical of oneself and truthful in one’s thinking—you must be a true fool to lie to yourself. Certainly, ideally you have this attitude to all those around you, but with…

Reflections

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Things I learned and will never do again
Things I learned and will never do again
Reflections

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May 14, 2022

Authoring Good Design Documentation

Good documentation is vital and shows that you care about your design system and those who will use it. Lacking good documentation practices could spell doom for a design system. — This is an excerpt from a course I have released on Newline, called “The newline Guide to React Component Design Systems with Figmagic”. You might also be interested in my other articles, such as “How To Automate Design Handoffs and Set Up a Design System with Figmagic”.

Figma

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Authoring Good Design Documentation
Authoring Good Design Documentation
Figma

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May 7, 2022

Managing Change in Continuous Design

A diagram can be the difference between an organization of “petty kings” doing their own thing and having actionable plans built on a shared identity: What we need is some kind of governance. — This is an excerpt from a course I have released on Newline, called “The newline Guide to React Component Design Systems with Figmagic”. You might also be interested in my article “How To Automate Design Handoffs and Set Up a Design System with Figmagic”.

Figma

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Managing Change in Continuous Design
Managing Change in Continuous Design
Figma

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UX Collective

·Updated Mar 5, 2022

Continuous Design and how to enable it

How Agile and DevOps can influence a modern approach to the design of software visuals, UX, and interactions. — This is an excerpt from a course I am making with Newline, called “The newline Guide to React Component Design Systems with Figmagic”. You might also be interested in my article “How To Automate Design Handoffs and Set Up a Design System with Figmagic”. From waterfall to DevOps Let’s look back a few decades…

Design

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Continuous Design and how to enable it
Continuous Design and how to enable it
Design

14 min read


Feb 26, 2022

Design tokens and why design systems need them?

One magic, simple concept and a one-stop-shop to contain our design equals one hell of a powerhouse. — What you will learn in this article Learn what design tokens are Learn how you can work with a “structured design” approach This is an excerpt from a course I am making with Newline, called “The newline Guide to React Component Design Systems with Figmagic”. You might also be interested in my article “How To Automate Design…

Design Patterns

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Design tokens and why design systems need them?
Design tokens and why design systems need them?
Design Patterns

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Humblebee

·Dec 29, 2020

Open source license compliance, the TL;DR version

It’s easier than you think 🍷 and you (probably) don’t even need a lawyer 💸 — What you will get here This article will provide you with a realistic, pragmatic approach and a set of tools to work with open source—just like you’re probably already doing today—but with a stronger backbone and an arsenal of answers when your legal department calls you about ”WTF no one told them you developers use…

Open Source

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Open source license compliance, the TL;DR version
Open source license compliance, the TL;DR version
Open Source

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Dec 28, 2020

Technical GDPR and privacy compliance, the TL;DR version

Some tips to GTFO 🏃 of the worst “privacy dumpster fires” 🔥 🚒 — To keep this as short as the TL;DR title promises, I cut out a section that was originally slated for this article. …

Gdpr

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Technical GDPR and privacy compliance, the TL;DR version
Technical GDPR and privacy compliance, the TL;DR version
Gdpr

14 min read

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Mikael Vesavuori

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