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@eightshapes working design systems. Wrote @components, blogs. Sports: @arsenal ⚽️ , Cleveland 🏈⚾️🏀. Education: @virginia_tech, @uchicago math and statistics.

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Nathan A Curtis
2 years
Excited about incorporating @figma variables detection and display in EightShapes Specs anatomy, props and layout and spacing. https://t.co/qfI5g6o2tK
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Nathan A Curtis
21 days
“Components as Data“, my latest on Medium:
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How to define components independent of platforms to scale a system’s impact
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Nathan A Curtis
10 months
Why in the world can you only set node.annotations via a plugin with dev mode enabled? I could easily add annotations via my existing design-mode Specs plugin, putting the right specs in the right places to tell the precise stories developers want to see, but can't.
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Figma
10 months
You can now build plugins that can create and edit annotations in Dev Mode
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@mikemcalister
Mike McAlister 🛹
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One of our most popular Ollie Pro extensions by far is Animation Designer, an intuitive and performant way to add beautiful animations to your @WordPress blocks. Here's a complete video walkthrough, showing a few examples of how to bring your designs to life.
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Nathan A Curtis
10 months
Yeah, OK, maybe I will. My specs plugin is pretty much shovel-ready to integrate this easily so that (a) you don't have to otherwise build your own plugin to do it and (b) it's already intelligent enough to only annotate and *difference* the attributes that matter.
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Figma
10 months
You can now build plugins that can create and edit annotations in Dev Mode
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Nathan A Curtis
11 months
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Nathan A Curtis
11 months
So I am really starting to sense... is design systems Twitter/X really dying out? Is now the time we've reached critical lack of mass?
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@atossainc
Atossa Therapeutics
12 days
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, look into Atossa Therapeutics. We’re advancing an (Z)-endoxifen (investigational) program to address important unmet needs in breast health. Review our science, our team, & our balance sheet. Then decide for yourself. Nasdaq: ATOS
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Lukas Oppermann
1 year
In this article https://t.co/nfeIb7IuGp @nathanacurtis argues that #designSystems need more steps & rigor to achieve the higher quality and engagement they promise. That is why they take longer to build features than product teams, and that is a good thing.
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
Gotta love @smashingconf Antwerp, bringing a fun and festive atmosphere to design and tech conferences.
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
Managing Design Systems with Many Core Libraries: How to collaborate, align and synchronize production of many libraries that offer the same core UI components My latest on @medium https://t.co/enTxdQDHvM
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How you align design and engineering and synchronize releases depends on the frameworks, platforms and teams involved
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
In design tokens, don’t do what airlines do when creating scales: boarding group 1 (and 2, 3, …) preceded by what ends up a potpourri of other “pre” classes of various types ordered quizzically.
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@OaktonHS
Oakton High School
1 year
2024 Northern Region Champions! So proud of Oakton Cheerleading, heading to States November 9!! #WEAREOAKTON
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
Deep arguments at bar trivia triggered by my chart of Madonna quality ‘82-‘92. I am circles: Like a Prayer and Vogue was the ultimate.
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
Whether I am doing it wrong (upon opening, it showed this) OR a middle tab is indeed now the default, I am utterly disoriented. WTH @nytimes iOS app Home section? Have I ever seen this in IA history?
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
With subscriptions increasing, I've been adding small enhancements from my customers to the Specs Figma plugin today... – Display color in HSLA – Annotate horz, vertical spacing set to AUTO – Detect custom Specs text styles hidden from publishing (by `.`) https://t.co/DsdD75QVNS
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@sara_brunettini If you want to go deep and learn hands-on + real world examples. We still have spots left for our upcoming online workshop with @nathanacurtis https://t.co/7BBRSQ5reI
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
Working on the logic to annotate AUTO horizontal and vertical spacing as output from the EightShapes Specs Figma plugin. Getting close! :)
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
Why do instructions have to trigger memories of an unforgettable movie climax? 😭 #BradPitt
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
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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@vitalyf
Vitaly Friedman 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈
1 year
🎉🥳 Finally, after so many years, it’s LIVE! Meet “How To Measure UX and Design Impact” — a shiny new video course on UX metrics, Design KPIs and how to show your incredible UX impact: https://t.co/uFDjcHcxdt A practical guide for designers and design leads! 🙏🏾 #ux
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
What a presenter and emcee look like when dropping design system dad jokes that bomb. "What does the hammer leave for good service? A tooltip." @smashingconf@vitalyf • Photo credit: Mark Thiele
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Nathan A Curtis
1 year
Any other non-climate expert non-meteorologist, watching Milton arriving, now wondering… “This is real. When should we expect the freeze waves shown in Day After Tomorrow?”
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