Working notes. See Design Engineering for more links & resources.

Design Systems

• Building a Design System from scratch, Maxime Heckel (2022)
• design-system (Maxime's open source personal design system)
• Bootstrapping a UI component library, Nicolás Bevacqua (2021)

Shaders

• Shades of Halftone, Maxime Heckel (2026)

Opinionated UI Components

• Unified diff viewer - Opinionated simple diff viewer for React

Coding Agents

• Conductor - Orchestrate coding agents on Mac

Animation

• Everything about Framer Motion layout animations, Maxime Heckel (2022)

Philosophy

• Craft isn't surface-level polish but system coherency
• Design as search, Karri Saarinen