05·Field Notes · Chapter 05

Documentation
is a
product.

Short essays on frontend architecture, design systems, accessibility, and AI-assisted engineering.

Ch · 05

Written between shipping

Ongoing

Featured · Design Systems

6 min

Why tokens are a language, not a stylesheet

How design tokens become the contract between designers, engineers, and product, and why that framing changes everything.

Frontend Architecture

8 min

The tradeoffs of prop-heavy vs. composable component design, with examples from real production systems.

AI-Assisted

7 min

Where AI accelerates delivery, and where it must stay out of the way. A practitioner's take.

Accessibility

5 min

Rewriting the internal narrative from 'compliance' to 'competitive advantage.'

Career

10 min

Lessons from two decades of technology upheaval, and what the next decade will demand.