Writing on front-end and design systems.
Practical notes from 20 years of building accessible, design-grade products. No theory for its own sake.
- Design systems
- Accessibility
- Front-end architecture
Posts and research
- Design Systems
Staff-level UI engineering
A practical, plain-language guide to Staff and Principal UI engineering: design systems, Web Components, UI platforms, accessibility, packaging, governance, and career growth.
42 min read - Design Systems
Native, Lit, or Stencil?
An enterprise comparison of direct browser APIs, Lit, and Stencil across authoring model, distribution, npm packaging, and cross-framework consumption.
22 min read - Design Systems
Measuring style guide adoption
A specification for measuring Rudiment UI adoption across an organization using the rudi namespace.
6 min read - Design Systems
Future-proofing front-end dev roles
How agentic AI and large language models are reshaping front-end engineering, and what the role is turning into.
19 min read - Design Systems
Web component libraries in the AI era
A research briefing for individual contributors, product owners, and engineering leaders working at enterprise scale.
23 min read - Design Systems
Where to learn modern front-end
A working reading list for front-end engineers: courses, books, newsletters, and AI-specific resources worth the time in 2026.
4 min read - Design Systems
The hidden cost of component inconsistency
Fragmented UI components create real costs that spread across teams and never show up as one line item. Here's how to find them and make the case for fixing them.
5 min read
Looking for the scorecard, the cost calculator, the token playground, or the audit inspector? Those are running software rather than essays, so they live in tools.