Thinking about extensive corporate design systems and open source ones like Tailwind.

HTML and CSS are like paper and pen. You just keep buying boxes of preferred paper and a variety of pen colors and weights.

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I think it’s because people lack taste to know what a thing should look like in the first place. And then because they haven’t bothered to develop taste they feel no need to understand how to produce such a thing.

Operating Figma to draw plans and writing CSS to make them real is the easiest part.

You just keep using paper and pens until you’re out or you’ve finished the job. Then you take a photo of the finished product and send it to a printer to prep for distribution.

Software handles the copies and distribution. Why has presentation layer become such a big deal?