The Evolution of Tools: Towards Design Intelligence
Design tools have traditionally represented design as pixels and rectangles — things that look like the outcome but aren't it. We're finally ready for something smarter.
Read moreDesign Tools
A collection of 5 posts
Dragging Rectangles
Since the Mac, design tooling has revolved around dragging rectangles. And yet I see nothing to tie the role of designer to rectangle-dragger.
Read more
Painting With Code
We built react-sketchapp — an open-source library that lets you write React components that render to Sketch documents. Here's what we've been doing with it.
Read more
Declarative Design Tools
Design is a process of divergence and convergence. Our tools should speak the language of that process — not force us to translate our ideas into rectangles first.
Read more
Taking The Robots To Design School
What happens when you try to teach a machine everything we know about typography? In 2016 I started finding out.
Read more