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op-eds
A Menu Is an Argument
A menu looks like a list. It is not a list. A menu is an argument about what you should want.
Saswat Deb Barman · 5 min
op-eds
The hymn, never the choir director
Most design systems have nothing to do with software. They are two-hundred-year-old machinery for getting strangers to sound like you, and 2026 just made the machinery honest.
Saswat Deb Barman · 5 min