Brad Frost

@brad_frost

I am a web designer, speaker, writer, consultant, and musician in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. Author of Atomic Design.

Pittsburgh, PA
Joined January 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    31 Mar 2014

    Work hard. Don't be an asshole. Share what you know.

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  2. 29 minutes ago

    I have the Pixel and it's the best camera I've ever owned. Looking forward to upgrading to the Pixel 3.

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    4 hours ago

    Design is a dance of switching contexts, zooming into a component and then back out to view the product as a whole. From ;s talk at on Maintaining Design Systems

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    4 hours ago

    Contrary to popular belief, atomic design is NOT about starting at the component level. It’s a virtuous circle of product design and systems design.

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    4 hours ago

    "A UI kit isn't a design system. That'd be like going to and coming home with just a manual." — at More info here:

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    3 hours ago

    Don't try to create a design system “from scratch” by willy-nilly gathering patterns that you might, maybe, possibly, who-knows need. Instead gather solved problems from existing products—demonstrably useful patterns.

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    3 hours ago

    Incredibly useful flow chart by for making decisions about adding and modifying patterns in a design system. via at

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    3 hours ago
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  9. 1 hour ago

    The main reason I'm sharing this now is because I got a bunch of questions about selling design systems, designer/developer collaboration on design systems, and maintaining/governing design systems. It's all in the book, friends.

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  10. 1 hour ago

    Rookie mistake: I forgot to plug my book in my slides at . I wrote a book called Atomic Design which is all about creating and maintaining design systems.

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    6 hours ago

    “Experience at scale does change culture. Experience at scale IS culture.” “Don’t give absurdity a chance to scale.” makes some really great points about how technology choices can change culture more than we might initially realize at

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  12. 6 hours ago

    Loving 's talk at about broadening the way we think about creating digital experiences. Think about how your work impacts humanity.

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  13. 7 hours ago

    "I could set up a shell corporation right now; it's so easy!" - breakfast with

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  14. Oct 8

    "A design system can't just float around in the abstract and address hypothetical situations. Products are trying to achieve specific things and the system needs to help facilitate those specific things." at Couldn't agree more.

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  15. Oct 8
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  16. Retweeted
    Oct 5

    “True collaboration between disciplines is fuzzy and chaotic, and that’s not a bad thing.” —

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  17. Oct 5

    New post: Sass Selectors: To Nest, Or Not To Nest:

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  18. Oct 5

    THIS IS THE BEST DOMAIN NAME.

    poop911.com
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  19. Oct 5

    I feel like it's been ages since I've written a blog post, so that felt really good.

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