Ian McNally

Link: practical flexibility in systems

October 30, 2017

Harry at CSS Wizardy writes (below) about building in safe guards to a system, versus excluding “forbidden” use cases. It resonated a lot with me, since I’ve been building a design system. Flexibility and pragmatism have been design principles from the beginning, so that we build a system that outlives us, or at least, any use case we can think of right now.

Link: “Airplanes and Ashtrays”


Ian McNally

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