Design Systems & Collaboration - Felipe Linares - Product designer & consultant

A dark patch panel with one coral-red cable running from a single source jack and fanning out into several destination jacks, representing a design token as one named value wired into many places.

Design Tokens, Explained: A Practical Guide for Designers

Design tokens turn one value into a single source of truth across design and code. A plain guide to what they are, how they work, and where to start in 2026.

A dark analog pressure gauge with a single coral-red needle swung deep into the high zone on a near-black background, representing design debt accumulating until it must be measured and relieved.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Design Debt: How to Spot It, Measure It, and Pay It Down

Design debt quietly slows every product as it scales. Learn how to spot it, score it with a simple audit, and pay it down before it compounds on you. Primary keyword: design debt

A tall leaning stack of dark blocks with a coral-red hairline crack, representing accumulating design debt in a scaling product.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Paying Down Design Debt at Scale

Discover why addressing design debt is essential for scalable products. Learn how to identify, manage, and settle design debt to ensure consistent user experiences and efficient development.

A coral-red relay baton suspended between two reaching hands that don't quite meet, representing the designer-developer handoff treated as a relay race.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Designer-Developer Handoff: It's Not a Tools Problem

he designer-developer gap gets blamed on tools. After 15 years shipping products, I think that's wrong. It's a handoff and collaboration problem first.

Two halves of a bridge reaching across a dark gap with a coral-red seam of light between them, representing the designer-developer gap.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Design Systems: Closing the Developer Gap

Why design systems break down at the design-to-development handoff, and practical ways to close the gap so components stay consistent from Figma to code.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Design Debt: How to Spot It, Measure It, and Pay It Down

Design debt quietly slows every product as it scales. Learn how to spot it, score it with a simple audit, and pay it down before it compounds on you. Primary keyword: design debt

Design Systems & Collaboration

Design Systems: Closing the Developer Gap

Why design systems break down at the design-to-development handoff, and practical ways to close the gap so components stay consistent from Figma to code.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Designer-Developer Handoff: It's Not a Tools Problem

he designer-developer gap gets blamed on tools. After 15 years shipping products, I think that's wrong. It's a handoff and collaboration problem first.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Paying Down Design Debt at Scale

Discover why addressing design debt is essential for scalable products. Learn how to identify, manage, and settle design debt to ensure consistent user experiences and efficient development.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Design Debt: How to Spot It, Measure It, and Pay It Down

Design debt quietly slows every product as it scales. Learn how to spot it, score it with a simple audit, and pay it down before it compounds on you. Primary keyword: design debt

Design Systems & Collaboration

Designer-Developer Handoff: It's Not a Tools Problem

he designer-developer gap gets blamed on tools. After 15 years shipping products, I think that's wrong. It's a handoff and collaboration problem first.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Design Systems: Closing the Developer Gap

Why design systems break down at the design-to-development handoff, and practical ways to close the gap so components stay consistent from Figma to code.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Paying Down Design Debt at Scale

Discover why addressing design debt is essential for scalable products. Learn how to identify, manage, and settle design debt to ensure consistent user experiences and efficient development.

Design Tokens, Explained: A Practical Guide for Designers

Design Debt: How to Spot It, Measure It, and Pay It Down

Paying Down Design Debt at Scale

Designer-Developer Handoff: It's Not a Tools Problem

Design Systems: Closing the Developer Gap

Design Debt: How to Spot It, Measure It, and Pay It Down

Design Systems: Closing the Developer Gap

Designer-Developer Handoff: It's Not a Tools Problem

Paying Down Design Debt at Scale

Design Debt: How to Spot It, Measure It, and Pay It Down

Designer-Developer Handoff: It's Not a Tools Problem

Design Systems: Closing the Developer Gap

Paying Down Design Debt at Scale

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