Sam I am 🫶
@SamIam_Designs
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Innovation + Disruption 🎨 @tokensstudio 📐 Host @intodsconf 👩🎨 Creative weirdo 🖤 🏡🎶 House music selectress 🌅 Sky chaser (She/Her)
Toronto, Ontario
Joined August 2011
Hope people have fun generating patterns with this
figma.com
Select a shape. Set the rotation angle and generate a Spirograph. The Spirograph is created around the centre of the selected shape. You can also create more interesting patterns if you change total...
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If you are ready to channel your inner Ghostbuster, check out the full guide to Ghost Variables in Figma on my Substack. 👻 https://t.co/tgt2Th543h 🧵 6/6
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You'll also find battle-tested pro tips from community Ghostbusters and a small army of powerful plugins to add to your arsenal. 👻 The goal is to find where all your Ghost Variables are hiding so you can exorcise them from your Figma file for good. 🧵 5/6
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In my latest guide, I cover the 5 signs your Figma file is haunted and how it got that way 👻 1. Phantom Mode Selection 2. The Doppelganger Effect 3. The Haunted Hangover 4. The Publishing Poltergeist 5. Haunted House Demolition in Progress 🧵 4/6
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If you are lucky, one of the pro tips I've compiled from our community Ghostbusters will do the trick. If not, you may have a case of Zombie Variables. 🧟♀️ Zombie Variables are the final boss of Variable problems. These are the ghosts that just won't go away. 🧵 3/6
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👻 What is a Ghost Variable? The community has adopted the term "Ghost Variables" to represent the Variables that should have disappeared when you deleted them. Yet somehow, they're popping up in your Figma files, causing confusion and making you question your sanity. 🧵 2/6
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Do you experience feelings of dread in Figma files while working with Variables that should be dead? 💀 If the answer is yes, you might be dealing with Ghost Variables. 👻 🧵 1/6
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I've got the new Ghostbusters movie on in the background while I finish up this article I'm writing for my #designsystems blog. 👻 Any guesses what the topic will be? The first few people who guess the right answer will receive some stickers from me!
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If you aren't familiar with the story, in 1927, the "famous five" women from Alberta pushed back on the government definition of "persons" which was used to keep women out of the Canadian senate. 🤓 Learn more: https://t.co/XFukrrDkt0 And yes, trans women are women. 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
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Today I'm celebrating Persons Day. 🇨🇦 As a Canadian who identifies as a woman, it's important to remember that we've only been included in the definition of a "person" in law for under 100 years. 🤯 I'd love to connect with more Canadian women in tech and creative arts!
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I’m researching interactive states. Would you recommend other design systems with a published Figma kit (ideally in the Figma community) with Text input components that provide interesting takes on architecting interactive and configurable states. I’ve got 10 audited so far…
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So where are all the design systems homies hanging out these days? Let's connect!
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Web components are making a lot of buzz in the conference circuit this year...
https://t.co/kuLD4K5MRi Yes, this perfectly sums up and formulates all the discussion around web components lately, and I love the way it categorizes components by Users vs Authors ratio, aka high reusability vs "only makes sense in this context". Great post @LeaVerouDev
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Bring back the RSS feed!
⏳ RSS is a classic technology and a delightful way of taking back ownership of our time. Based on XML, it lets us consume feeds in our own apps. @k_henhey shows how to do exactly that with a static site you can use as your personal RSS reader:
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Adding another silly thing to my to-do list for Dec when things are slower...
Everyone I know is baffled by the clumsiness of this update. Anyone not using 16:9 is stuck with thousands of files with ugly thumbnails that you can't update via components because only dumb frames (not instances) can be made thumbnails. 1/2
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While this wasn't as good as a whole cohort of getting to know everyone, I had a blast! Thank you for having me @molly_hellmuth 🫶
Huge thanks to @SamIam_Designs, our favorite token guru, for popping in between conferences to answer all our nitty gritty Qs about Token Studio!
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New York 🫶 I'm excited for a Smashing good time this week! I'm speaking Wednesday @smashingconf and working remote the rest of the week. Hit me up if you are around for @TokensStudio or @penpotapp stickers and up for talking shop.
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Love this case study! Start small and plan for the future 🫶
Design system don't always have to be huge expensive undertakings. Read about how we @3_Sided_Coin helped build a design system to help a small team scale their product https://t.co/h16Ueeh0kd
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Stupidest captcha award goes to whichever service Mastodon is using... I had to do this 3x.... 🙈
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