Fundamentally speaking (with no regard for the platform), an animation lets an element gradually change from one state to another. Each animation needs at least these four parts: trigger, duration, easing, and property.

Figma released an update last week to bring the Variants feature to everyone. Variants were first announced back in September, at Config Europe 2020. They’re now available to everyone using Figma in-browser or on the Desktop app.

Design Systems are great, aren’t they? They solve all of our problems with consistency, speed of implementation, and overall business agility. We can now drag and drop our beautiful, well-documented lego bricks and create new screens, new features, and new ways for our company to grow.

Industries such as Architecture or Industrial Design have developed smart modular systems for manufacturing extremely complex objects like airplanes, ships, and skyscrapers. Inspired by this, Atomic Design was proposed as a system that involves breaking down a website or web application into its basic components so that they can be reused throughout the site.

Hadron is the design tool where code is the foundation of your designs. It feels very familiar for designers. But when you design with it you’re coding, not painting.

Building a System is not an easy task, but it is an enjoyable one. Discovering connections, creating new ones, improving the parts and seeing the whole evolved in shape and purpose are some of the things that make it such an interesting project to work on.