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Language is not just a bag of words

January 17, 2023 by jeckman

Via Ethan Marcotte, Jeff Eaton responding to Down with the Design System: The problem is that treating a design system as a pantry full of widgets is, in and of itself, a failure of both craft and imagination. Think of it like a language: if a writer’s only engagement with it is grabbing words from … Read more

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