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Founder @intodsconf • 📐 Next #DesignSystems conference 👉🏻 🗓️ May 15-17 2024 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ they/them

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The salary 😲
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🪄Periodic Table of Design Tokens - by Marta Conde Source & File in 🧵 #DesignTokens #DesignSystems
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Imagine Bob Ross designing in @figma 😆
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I love how @Apple is packing ~18 slides into 1. Would love to see this in general more often whenever possible. 🙏🏼 #AppleEvent #uidesign
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Doing some research today. 🔭 What are your favorite #DesignSystem documentation resources? Going to drop my findings in this 🧵
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So in love with the new Smart Layout feature in @sketch 🔥 This is taking symbols to the next level can't even describe how much time I will safe with this update! 💥💥💥 #sketch #sketchapp 🍦
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Work from home level: Figma 😂 @figmadesign
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What are #DesignTokens ? Best explanation I've ever seen. 😅🐈 Full guide: by @rominadesigner
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Friendly reminder #DesignSystems
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Fun fact: with the #DesignSystem agency I run in the background we managed to build 5 Design Systems in 2022. We don’t have a website, no logo and no proper name yet. Just start 🛫 First I did 100% of the work, then I hired people I like & trust. Pro tip: learn #FigmaTokens
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@zoink @figma @Adobe Dissapointed af. 💰🤑 > community
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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What if you could generate, modify and style complex components in #Figma with just a few clicks? Meet #UnStyled a headless #Figma UIKit with endless possibilities to style & create components. Now live on @ProductHunt
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Watching designers adding variables knowing that the PO will never approve budget for Figma’s enterprise plan. What’s the plan then? 🍿
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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I can see the alps + your components @figmadesign #figma #workoutside
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Daily rates #freelance design UI / UX / Product Designer - € 500-600 Design System Designer - € 700-800 Design System Designer with Design Tokens experience: €900+ Design System Lead /Consultant: € 900- 1500+ From my experience Market: 🇩🇪🇨🇭 High demand: Design Tokens pros
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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You can do this in @framer with 2 clicks 🤷🏼
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Holy sweet mother of dragons, someone has built a Figma interactive component that simulates typing in form fields. This is not a drill 🚨 Here's the file:
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Currently I have 2 types of designers I need to "deal with" aka manage 1. overengineering components in #Figma - producing a lot of variants just for the sake 2. not interested in learning autolayout or how to set up things properly - just wants to "design"
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Paused #freelancing for a while, but as many people asked here is the daily rate to give you an 💡: Freelance UX / UI Designer: €600-700 / day Freelance #DesignSystems expert: €900-1200 / day Market: 🇩🇪🇨🇭 Mostly worked 4 days / week and took ~3 full months per year off
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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How do you handoff your #Figma variables to devs?
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Harry • your UX/UI Partner 🇺🇦
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Hey folks 👋 Can anybody please guide me on how @figma now sees my interaction with devs with variables? I have a large structure of variables set up in my file for colors and spacings, but I can’t seem to be able to transfer that w/o 3rd party plugins that devs aren’t happy with
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We're launching #UnStyled tomorrow! 🚨 A headless #Figma UiKit with endless possibilities to style & create components. Don't waste any more time to manually create components! The best Kit we've ever created with @SShuaiqi Get notified on @ProductHunt
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Figma might release native #DesignTokens pretty soon. What does that mean for the #FigmaTokens Plug-in? 👀 Jan Six @six7 : I’ve prepared for this already a year ago. #FigmaTokens is ready for any integration if needed. Waiting for Figma to ship it. What a legend 😅🚀
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🔮Some #Figma plugins absolutely killing it in 2022: Figma Tokens @six7 Automator @diagram Dream @coderitual Gist @mk_wlsn Resources in 🧵
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Anybody interested in joining a #DesignSystems Hackathon / Makerthon? We could design + build things together to improve our daily work (tools, plug-ins, hacks …), share ideas & network. Who’s in?
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Cascading Components — A way to organize #Figma component variants by Bruno Temporim Carneiro
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Words can't even describe how fast @sketch runs on the #MacBookProm1 it's faster I can press keys or my eyes can look 😂. Absolutely stunning.
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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The wait is finally over! The Future of Design Systems Conference 2023 is launching today! @intodsconf Absolutely proud of the massive line-up of #DesignSystem experts & pioneers🚀 Massive shoutout to our main sponsor: Tokens Studio🙌🏻⚡️ 🗓️June 8-9 Online
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Design Tokens should be synced and used for every design decision you make. Not only UI. PowerPoint presentations, company‘s printer, flyers, ads, PDFs…
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
5 years
No more Navbar Menu item move it around hassle thanks to Smart Layout in Sketch 🔥 @sketch #sketch #sketchapp
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
2 years
Looks like the market doesn’t like the news as well. #Figma #Adobe 😅
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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What a day for design people #RIP 🫠🫠🫠
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We’re excited to share our intent to acquire @Figma . Together, we will usher in a new era of collaborative creativity. Key info:
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Thanks to Smart Layout in Sketch 58 beta you can also create a whole chat conversation without moving text layers or shapes around! Here is an example. @sketch #sketch #sketchapp 🥰
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Doing some research today 🔭What are your favorite #DesignTokens - Naming Conventions resources? Going to drop my findings in this 🧵 #DesignSystems
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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My favorite #DesignSystems resources atm: 🪄Nord @NordhealthHQ - 🪄PENCIL @brainly - 🪄Wanda @wandaflow - 🪄 Orbit @OrbitKiwi - 🪄Gestalt @Pinterest - Yours?
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Plugin: A Variable Builder for #Figma ⚡️Effortlessly Generate Comprehensive Global Variables/Tokens in No Time! 🙌🏻 by Mohamed Fawzy
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Maybe stupid. But I said No to Apple, Google, Sketch, Figma, IKEA & everyone else trying to hire me over the past 5 years. I just want to build my own ideas - building @intodsconf & figuring out how to build a statup makes me happy. That's it.🤠
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Omg!!! Blown away to see so many amazing people attending our #DesignSystems Meetup @intodsconf There are people from around the world attending. Soooo happy to see SO many people ❤️ #IntoDesignSystems
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„By doing what you love, you inspire and awaken the hearts of others.“ 💕Some impressions of my @framer & @sketchapp workshops at @digitdesigndays Milano. #ddd18 #sketchapp #framer
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Wish there was a giant #DesignSystem for the Web with accessible components people pull from instead of rebuilding the same basic components in a bad way (UX) over and over again, same goes for documentation. 🏴‍☠️ And that’s what we‘re going to build starting today. ✌🏻More soon
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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⚡️⚡️Let's nominate #FigmaTokens by @EstherCheran + @six7 they're doing an amazing job @figma #figma
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Donated some money & canceled a project with a German bank (involved in Russia), not going to build their #DesignSystem Probably better to take the day off 🤯
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Hardest job of organizing a virtual conference: Finding female speakers - especially for #DesignSystem topics Also it feels wrong to say no to male speakers 🤯🙈
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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How do designers survive working with design agencies without burning out. Haven’t seen any design agency without crazy hours / responsibilities/ workload. (🇩🇪)
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Reminder - 2023 in 4 months👋🏻 #DesignTokens 👉🏻 #Figma ?
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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The demand for #DesignSystem experts is crazy right now. 🚀 If you consider to look for a new job, do it now. Our Slack is full of job posts and people text me daily if I’m available or can recommend someone Bonus skill: Multibrand Design Systems, #DesignTokens , #FigmaTokens
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Design System Imposter Syndrom: 👽 You hear from all the orgs with big teams working on a DS, many have several DS, developing their own plugins, having well documented doc sites. But you are the only designer responsible for a #DesignSystem in your company. Feel you 😆
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Definitely one of the coolest #DesignSystems I've seen in a while. Must be really cool to design spaceship UIs 🚀 @AstroUXDS 🪐Astro Space UX Design System
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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UI Guideline - The definitive guide to standardize the UI Components naming #designsystem #designsystems
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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⚡️The conference recordings @intodsconf are ready 🎬25 videos - 23 hours of #DesignSytems content 👉🏻22 sessions including a 4h #FigmaTokens Workshop with @six7 Session with #Volkswagen & #IKEA Workshop with @specifyapp , @supernova_io & many more Some of my favorite slides 🧵👇🏻
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Who else is using #ChatGPT to generate #DesignSystems docs? 😇 Sorry, but it is really hard to come up with some unique content to describe a button. 🧐 #gpt3
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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🇺🇦 If you‘re a designer / dev any kind of human & you need to escape from #Ukraine I can provide a temporary space in my house. (1 p) We can work together (my home = office) and I can help with registration/ papers. Location: Munich, 🇩🇪 You can bring your pets as well. 🐱 🐶
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Now that many people know what a #DesignSystem is+ why you need it. Let's push topics like #DesignTokens , #FigmaTokens , #DesignOps + automation of building component libraries forward I'm looking for speakers who would like to contribute to "The future" - @intodsconf 🛸DM ME
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Would have been cool to give a shoutout to @six7 who has brought #DesignTokens to #Figma 2 years ago before announcing variables 😂. #Config2023 Was cool to see html to design. Congrats @divriots @th4is_ds But still why @figma
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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17.7k installs - great achievement @six7 Congrats! 🎉 #FigmaTokens
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Tired of.. "A Design System is not X it's Y" - how do you know?👀 A Design System is ... *whatever works best for you & team. It might be a product, community, set of guidelines or ... *whatever You don't even have to follow the atomic approach if you don't like it.✌🏻
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Hey there, this is how you set up a navbar with Smart Layout for Symbols and nested Symbols or Groups🔥. You can either set Smart Layout in the Create Symbol panel or in the properties panel of the specific symbol. 🤟🏻 @sketch #sketchapp #sketch
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Wireframing at the lake. Love it! Don’t understand why humans force humans to sit in the office to get work done. #freelance
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Looks like a wireframe on wheels
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For the first time in 100 years, the competition is coming for legacy auto Welcome to the year of the Cybertruck
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Towkns ⚡️ - The simplest way to create, maintain, and distribute your #DesignTokens for all your projects. In beta 👀 Automated naming. Forget about naming conventions. We take care of that for you. 🔥
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How to tell the client that the UI component library we have been building (70% done) needs to be re factored and we‘ll need more budget & time because of the new component props in #Figma They recently switched from Sketch to #Figma Can’t wait for Monday meeting 🥹 ⚰️
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Eventually started a new design firm.. (more later) First act as CEO - learn how to make ☕️ like in 🇮🇹 🤌🏻
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Lost in #Figma variable madness. There are still too many additional plugins required to run this feature properly 😒 Stick with Tokens Studio
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Network > Portfolio Almost 5 years of freelancing, 20+ clients. I still don’t have a website. 3-4 people asked for a #portfolio Best skill you can develop is networking. If people recommend you directly,you‘re 98% in. But: I‘ve organized 30+events and went to a lot of events
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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During lockdown I lost all of my clients - 7 months 0 income. Thanks to the popularity of @intodsconf I managed to not go broke and get so many jobs that I could even run a #DesignSystems agency on a side. Insane 🤯 Forever grateful 🙏🏼 thanks everyone supporting @intodsconf 🙏🏼
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Sketch 60 is out with a brand new Components Panel & Improved Cloud Libraries. Now this is a huge timesaver when it comes to managing Styles, Symbols & Libraries. 🎉 Love it! @sketch #sketchapp #sketch
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Does anybody know #DesignSystem folks working on the Goldman Sachs Design System? Your Design System is brilliant and I want you to speak at the next @intodsconf 😍
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Variables in Figma <> Collections Setup 🎨 Free #Figma File Learn how variables are constructed in separate collections, and how they are inheriting values from each other & put contextual tokens in action. 🔗 #designsystems
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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🔥 Free #DesignTokens Starter Set | JSON, Variables & Tokens Studio Sync for #Figma
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
1 year
Designers again busy discussing whether or not to name layers but want a seat at the table. 🫠
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Topics for the next @intodsconf WIP: - Design Systems Analytics - Automation of DS building - Multibrand DS - #DesignTokens - #DesignOps Anything else you would like to learn about?
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Let’s build our own design tool. First feature: #DesignTokens support 😅 #Figma #Adobe
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Building a design tool on top of web & dev standards is super clever. @penpotapp Imagine autolayout behaving like css flexbox and no more design & dev back and forth. 🪄🤹 Instead of re inventing a workaround aka your own feature why not using all these open standards.Chef💋
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Some women from the design + tech space 🪐 who inspire me: @codePrincess @hyumankind @killnicole @dainal @ashaindra @kellycodeschaos @lindadong @ATzanavari @anfisign @ursooperduper @WalterStephanie Of course there are sooo many more, I will do this regularly 😊
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Want to learn how to create cool websites in #Framer ? Here are some great tutorials 🧵👇🏻
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Thanks so much for having us 🇸🇪 Met so many supportive #DesignSystem Friends. The design community in Sweden is really special. 😍 Overwhelmed by the massive interest & positive feedback. 🙏🏼 for making our first hybrid event such a huge success! 🇸🇪💕 @intodsconf
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@TexasToe @EuropeanLbrl @nexta_tv Nope but prepared this in the last 16 years
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Enjoying top of Italy. 🇮🇹 ❤️
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Happy re factoring day friends 🤠
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Jan Toman
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Many designers today after release of updated Figma components 😈
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Yesterday I announced a virtual & interactive #DesignSystems #conference to see if people are interested in this kind of event. Sold most of the pre-sale tickets within 24h. Super happy about that. 🙏🏻 thanks to everybody who is supporting me.
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Woop Woop! Lucky me! FramerX here we go🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 #framer @framer
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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2-3 years ago it was super hard for me to find a job in the #DesignSystem field - there were almost no openings (EU) Now the demand for #DesignSystems experts is exploding. This is EPIC 💥 Demand is imo much higher 🚀than available experts. It’s your time to get a cool job 🤩
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Huge fan of @framer Sites. It took me 5 minutes to add and publish new speakers & workshops on our website @intodsconf 🤟🏻
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Welcome to the #DesignSystem job openings mega 🧵 If you look for a job / offer a job👇🏻
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Back in #Berlin & soon at @figma ‘s launch party. Can’t wait to see their new office in #Berlin 🙌🍬 #figma
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⚡️ #Figma Open source Plugins - To Help Designers And Developers Work Faster, Smarter And Intentionally.
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We are currently working on 5 #DesignSystems simultaneously. This wouldn’t be possible without #FigmaTokens by @six7 In addition we built a headless Design System to copy paste basic components in #Figma 👌🏻 Reduced client work: 3 months -> 1 month. Clients safe 75% time 🚀
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We went from 80 viewers at our first online meetup to 850 viewers at our last one. Is this even real?
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Design Tokens 101 ⚡️ by @rominadesigner • What are #DesignTokens • How to set up design tokens and where to use them • Naming Conventions • Handoff process • The powerful features of the #FigmaTokens Plugin • #FigmaTokens Workshop • Resources
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As a freelance designer my dream was always to work with #BMW but I’ve never made it even tough I’m based in Munich and all of my freelance friends did a project with them 😅 - unreal that we can host such a big event @intodsconf in their HQ tonight. 🚗🎉🙌 #excited
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@alexmuench Policewoman 😂 🎨 Freelance UX/UI Designer
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Into Design Systems - 2017 vs 2023 🚀 @intodsconf
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If you hate your job and it’s your last day at the company
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Kirill Zakharov
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Did you know you can detach ALL of those pesky @figma components that your design systems team built? — Select everything on your page (⌘ + A) — Pull up the command palette (⌘ + /) — Type “detach all…”
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Sil Bormüller 🎨📐
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Would love to explore a different way of conferences. Listening to talks + meeting folks is super inspiring but how about in addition to this spending time with a group of people at a firecamp or hiking? The Dolomites might be a good spot for a #DesignSystems retreat. Yes / No?🤔
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