Writing
Notes on interface craft, design systems, and the parts of the work that resist being turned into a process. Every few weeks, usually about something that annoyed me.
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Hover is a promise
Every hover state is a claim about what happens next. Most of them are lying.
18 Apr 2026
4 min
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The design system nobody reads
Documentation is what a system produces when it has failed to be obvious.
9 Feb 2026
6 min
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Against dashboards
A wall of numbers is what you build when you have not decided what the question is.
24 Nov 2025
5 min
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Six weeks is the right amount of time
Long enough to build something real. Short enough that you cannot avoid deciding.
2 Sep 2025
4 min
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A type scale you can hold in your head
Four sizes, two weights, one measure. Everything past that is an argument waiting to happen.
14 Jun 2025
7 min
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What I keep in the margins
Notes on a habit of writing in the edges of things, and what it does to how I read.
30 Mar 2025
3 min
Say hello
I read everything and reply to most of it. Notes about something I wrote are especially welcome, particularly the ones telling me I am wrong.
theo@theobrandt.co