Hi, I'm Mae 👋. I'm a software engineer who has spent the last 4 years working on design systems.

I've been writing code professionally for 6 years. In the last 4 years, I've worked on design systems and component libraries for companies like American Express, Harry's, and Better.com.

Welcome to my digital garden 🌱.

I believe that design systems thinking is a powerful way to improve a product's consistency, accessibility, and speed to market. I love sharing what I know with other developers and engineering managers so that they can also build lasting, robust design systems artifacts, like component libraries, design assets, processes, and automation.

Design systems architecture

  • Building a multi-brand design system in layers
  • The 5 layers of a design system
  • Where to Start with Design Tokens

    • Frontend infrastructure

  • How to Ignore Changed Files when Publishing with Lerna
  • What are Conventional Commits?
  • Do you Need to Version your Component Library?

    • Team models and governance

  • Design System Team Models: The First Engineering Hires
  • Design System Team Models: How to Hire a Frontend-of-the-Frontend Engineer
  • Design System Team Models: How to Hire a Frontend Infrastructure Engineer

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