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Background

Frontend

Quarterly Design System and Frontend Podcast Roundup – Q1/22

Read our roundup of podcasts released in the first quarter of 2022. Everything related to Design Systems, Frontend development and headless CMS / Jamstack

Jonas Ulrich

April 18, 20228 min read

Demo

Frontend

Setting up a working Design System in less than a day

In this post we demonstrate how kicking off a Design System, by applying tokens and adding some customization, can be done in under a day. In the process recreating the Sanity.io landing page, with its style and content, as a fully functional prototype based on the resulting components.

Franz Leven

April 14, 20226 min read

Background

Components

Frontend

Unlocking the frontend – a call for standardizing component APIs pt.1

We’re still wasting massive amounts of valuable development cycles in the frontend world by working in silos, or by to at least some extent reinventing the wheel for every project. Results suffer in the process, impacting real world results for users and content creators alike. How did we get here, and how could a way forward look like? How we’ve already come a long way, and why still (so far) even Jamstack hasn’t been the sole answer, either…

Jonas Ulrich

March 6, 202212 min read

Components