Themebat / Tutorials
I had one of those “we need to stop shipping everything from one giant repo” moments after watching a tiny change in our design tokens pipeline unexpectedly bump the version of every component in...
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Getting a clean, responsive SVG icon set out of Figma without any raster fallbacks is one of those small victories that saves time and preserves quality across web and product builds. I’ve iterated...
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I often get asked how I keep brand visuals consistent when using Midjourney. As tempting as it is to treat each generated image as a one-off piece of creative luck, building a reliable visual system...
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I used to spend hours chasing a thousand vanity metrics—pageviews, impressions, clicks—hoping one of them would magically tell me whether users would stick around. Over the years, working on...
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I love automating the tedious parts of design work—but only when automation respects the rules of my design system. Over the years I’ve learned that a few well-chosen Figma plugins can shave...
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I often get asked how to keep a color system consistent when a project spans the web, animated interfaces, and printed material. I used to manage separate color palettes for each medium—one for the...
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I recently helped a client turn a sprawling, inconsistent Figma design system into a lean, token-driven workflow. If you’ve ever opened a file and felt your brain scramble trying to map colors,...
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I write tutorials because I want people to finish things. Too often I see guides that are beautifully written but leave readers stuck in the “follow-along limbo” — they read, nod, and never...
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When I first helped a tiny design team ship a product on a shoestring budget, we avoided the lure of a “perfect” component library and aimed for something that would actually get used. Years...
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