Caroline Horn

👀ooh lookie lookie Auditing a legacy design system: The first to-do list New article from me, this time on the @zeroheight.com blog zeroheight.com/blog/auditin... 🙏🖤

Layoffs suck. Grief is hard. I lost an amazing icon & type designer. And I lost a design token wizard — truly one of the best at color theory I’ve ever seen. And a mobile designer / technologist who was truly amazing — design system alumni. If you’re looking to hire, I am happy to connect you.

Cross posting here. Will have news on where I'm going next in a couple weeks. www.linkedin.com/posts/curiou...

I let my husband borrow my sling purse for his travels. He finally gets it. 😄

Episode 078 of The Question is live! Kacey Wood joins me to dig into the psychology of #designsystems work: reactance, pushback, and how you convince people without triggering their defenses. Answer before Wed 5pm ET and join Thursday's deep dive: bit.ly/answerTheQue...

How do you teach craft? Where does it come from? I asked this to @curiouschaos.com at the end of Wireframe Live yesterday and here's her answer: "The foundational piece ... is that the person cares." 💡 What a great insight. I truly believe this is the thing that is separating us from the LLMs.

Chatting with @donnie.damato.design is the ultimate systems geek out session. I honestly loved this. Even though my "passion hives" were showing.

Excited to sit down and chat with *the* @donnie.damato.design tomorrow! Get ready for strong opinions and cynical views. 😂

My current vibes have become more and more just "own your own shit". Like, are you asking for permission or a scapegoat?

Hot take: collapsible UI sections should mostly be reserved for things which are initially collapsed. Collapsing to avoid scrolling is slower than scrolling

A huge archive of old websites from the older days that would have otherwise vanished or been taken over by ads. theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost/

Rather than the same old boring internet pranks, I thought I'd build something more fun this April Fools. CSS or BS. Can you tell your CSS properties names from BS? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs

Ugh! Im so tired of watching men pressuring women about having children by saying "you'd be a great mother". She wasnt arguing that! And like... no shit! But you missed the flipping point.

I finally updated my website to something at least somewhat pleasing. curiouschaos.com (Still vanilla HTML, no frameworks)

Would you like to work with me? 👋🏻 I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team at Kesko and we’re looking for a nice & talented designer/developer to join us. arielsalminen.com/2026/hiring-...

Robocalls now starting off by "clearing their throat". I still ain't buyin it!

She found the line to the heater

Design systems are so much more than tokens! (and components)

My toxic trait is thinking that every compliment and congratulation is disingenuous or condescending

Not a blog post, but demo is just as good. codepen.io/clhorn99/pen...

Seriously though, its not as big of a story as NYC, but Virginia flipped 15! seats yesterday including the Governor, Lt Gov, and AG. We went from barely holding a 51 majority in the state house to 63! Take note!

Way to turn out VA!!

Everyone sees the problem with this, right? .... Right!?

Them: What's the standard for this? Me: This Them: I don't like the standard, can we change it? Me: For what? Them: For this custom thing Me: We dont have a standard for that custom thing Them: Then what should be standard for this custom thing? Me: Its custom, go talk to who made it! #designsystems

Im calling it. It's officially cider season! 🍎

Here here! If there's anything 25 years of coding CSS has taught me is that the road to the present is filled with ways to write CSS that no longer exist and have died off. Regular ol' CSS is a constant that will always work, and will always be the most valuable skill. Hell, it's never been better.

I know tailwind already gets so much flak, but here's some more... It's failing our young developers. They're not actually learning CSS. CSS is transferable. Tailwind is not. This is my hill.

Hi 👋 Finally joined Bluesky! I know some of the design systems folks are here. Would love to connect and swap ideas. #designsystems

My pull requests these days

I'm struggling not to squish!

Contribution in design systems is mostly people applying a go faster stripe to their own car and then asking Honda to include it as standard.

I'm hiring, again! I'm looking for a strong (senior+) design-engineer (full 50/50 split) to join our design system team. Come bring the craft back to UI design!

Lol. Take that AI!

CSS mixins & functions are coming! And the best way to prepare is by re-visiting CSS variables. Don’t let the Guaranteed Invalid value & Invalid at Computed Value Time behavior trip you up. Watch my CSS Day talk, or book a workshop to go in depth with modern #CSS! www.oddbird.net/talks/mixins/

I didn't *mean* to take this pretty of a picture of a beetle. But look at this pretty picture of a beetle!

I'm realizing just how important it is for design systems to be in the same meetings with product leadership. Our goals need to align with company goals. Otherwise, we may be fighting against each other unintentionally.

No, AI will not make me a faster coder. It, too, has no clue what our linter rules are!

You'd get lost all the time. But then you'd actually learn the area, so next time, you'd remember and wouldn't need directions.

Ok Figma, I know i give you a lot of flack, but holy cow, is AI image search the bees knees! I had about 15 screenshots from 30 designers spread across an ungodly amount of files. It found each actual design frame in seconds. So, yes, I humbly say thank you.

We hit 700 videos on designsystems.media today! 🥳

Had a lot of fun recreating a UI, while learning more about clip-path and doing bad things with Grid Blogged about it www.dandenney.com/posts/front-... But if words aren't your thing, here's just a pen codepen.io/dandenney/pe...

We’re hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer for our Design Systems team! Location: New Zealand (Hybrid/Remote). Help shape the future of Xero, building scalable and accessible UI components to improve life for small businesses and accountants. jobs.lever.co/xero/bc60245...