The process of evolving a large scale design system

Practice better letter spacing….

A discussion of the ways that large tech companies helped to define the evolution of computer typography. One battle made the CEO of Adobe really mad.

Now the Photoshop beta has received another handy AI update, Generative Expand. Here’s how Adobe describes the feature: “A new workflow empowering users to expand images with magical results in 1-click in the Photoshop beta.”

Meet Jason Custer, an icon designer on the Fluent Design System team

We hear from Instagram’s director of brand design Cynthia Pratomo, who compares developing the look of Threads to “building the plane as you fly it”.

In the highly competitive arena of social networks, where the platforms you use communicate much about an individual’s personal brand, an effective logo is an essential brand asset.

Twitter’s new X logo has thicker lines.

This browser-based platform makes it easy to create online brand guidelines. We chat to founder Hamish Smyth about what Standards offers designers and why it’s time to ditch the PDFs.  

In this post, we’ll delve into the world of SVG gradients and explore the solution we devised to tackle the challenges that arose, and argue why sometimes, being given complex engineering challenges like this can be highly rewarding.