Yesenia Perez-Cruz

@yeseniaa

Author of Expressive Design Systems. UX Director . 🇵🇷 Boricua. Prev: she/her

Philadelphia
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Joined January 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    24 Sep 2019

    Hi y’all! I’m so excited to share that I’ve written a book about one of my favorite topics: design systems, brand expression, and creativity. 📕 Coming soon from .

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  2. Aug 5

    My fav is when I try to give myself enough of a buffer in case something goes wrong and then the pharmacy calls me back to yell at me for trying to fill my prescription too soon. 🙂

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    I've been out of my ADHD meds for a week due to having to get a refill/the refill being delayed due to an error/me having ADHD so the follow-up on all of this is slowly killing me. So apologies to everyone I have had to interact with this week 🥲⚰️🪦👻 I'm trying.
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  3. Aug 5

    Wild how the process of refilling ADHD medication feels intentionally hostile to people with ADHD. Every month it’s a huge hurdle.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jul 26

    My first Hack Days ! We made this awesome Avatar Maker for folks to create their pixel selves. Hoping that this could be a fun and easy way to bring a bit of joy and personality into our Dev Docs experience one day!

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  5. Jul 26

    I appreciate the nostalgia but imagine thinking that MySpace didn’t have influencers or clout chasing. 😅

    MySpace was probably the best social media time period ever. No ads, no influencers, clout chasing, just vibes, creativity & coding.
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  6. Jul 21

    When the swag comes in 🌚 dark mode and 🌞 light mode 😎

    Definitely joined the right team 👾❤️look at this amazing pixel art swag!
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  7. Jul 19

    Anyway, I bought a storage ottoman to replace my “clothes chair.” Problem solved!

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  8. Jul 19

    I started coaching with the goal of being better at laundry. Turns out what I needed to do was accept that I’m never going to be good at it. And that shouldn’t diminish everything I *am* good at!

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  9. Jul 19

    It’s wild how much content for women with ADHD is about overcoming shame and guilt about not being good at housework.

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  10. Jul 12

    Arial has angled terminals. 😜

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  11. Jul 12

    Design is part science, part art. I understand it’s trendier to say the art part is inconsequential, but I wish designers didn’t discredit their own work so much.

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  12. Jul 12

    Why not both? Look at the influence that a calligraphy course had on Steve Jobs. “It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.”

    If designers spent more time understanding the impact of their work and less time understanding the difference between lowercase As, the industry would probably be in a better spot.
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  13. Jul 12

    Question for people that are linear thinkers: How? I can’t imagine not seeing 100 branches off of every thought.

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  14. Jul 8

    Step 1: relating to this Step 2: realizing I opt into this because I hate being bored and measure my worth by my productivity 💀

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  15. Jul 1

    Oh yeah, this is a thing. This guy once plagiarized my entire talk (but attributed quotes to men throughout.) He said that he had read my work so many times “the ideas started to feel like his own.” That's why I wrote in my book acknowledgements.

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  16. Jun 30

    I’ve been blaming the train for running late for two weeks and I just realized the train has been on time, *I’ve* just been consistently missing it. 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ However, cheers to me for living life like I’m the main character. 😅

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  17. Retweeted
    Jun 30

    I can't get over how lovely is now.

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  18. Jun 29

    We've revamped our Dev Docs at ! ⭐ Clearer information architecture ⭐ Multi-lingual code block ⭐ Updated tutorial content ⭐ A new pixel art design language And the best is yet to come. I can't wait for everyone to see our redesigned references.

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  19. Jun 28

    It’s just easier to say “the design system did this” than to say “people do this by making decisions about what we value and prioritize.”

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  20. Jun 28

    People seem to always blame this on design systems, but a design system is a force multiplier of what your org values.

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  21. Jun 28

    When I was new to this industry, I marketed myself around the skills that I saw were in demand. If we’re not seeing these skills, it’s likely because designers aren’t seeing the incentives.

    It's been tough to recruit product designers with great visual design and an eye for detail. Did we atomic-design-system and product-manager-skills a generation out of having them?
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