367: With Micah Godbolt

I got to talk with Micah Godbolt this week! Micah is is a long-hauler at Microsoft working on Design Systems and such. His CodePen account looks a lot like mine: steady consistent usage of “just trying to figure something out” Pens sprinkled with some ideas that somehow seem to click with the wider front-end world. I found it fascinating that putting the word “Design Systems” into his book title “Front-end Architecture for Design Systems” was suggested by the publisher, and they were right! Turns out the term Design Systems clicked a lot harder since the 2016 publication and I’m sure hasn’t hurt sales!

Time Jumps

00:35 Guest introduction

02:46 Front end architecture for design systems

06:31 Building design systems

10:23 Sponsor: Linode

11:08 You don’t need a UI framework

17:49 Responsive multi-level nav pen

19:30 Multi height equal column pen

23:01 How do you ship components?

27:00 Testing for bugs

28:41 Consistently making pens

35:13 Creating a stripped down use case

40:06 Where can people find out more

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