What drew you to design systems?

I have had a fascination with front end engineering and UI for all of my career. Early on at GitHub I recognized the need to organize our code into reusable components. When the team formalized I had to be involved.

Who have you learned from or been inspired by?

Both past and present I have to acknowledge that Nicole Sullivan has been profoundly influential in the way I front-end and write CSS. When she introduced concepts of OOCSS it brought me from thinking very linearly about CSS to a whole new range of systems thinking.

Favorite tools

Atom, Bash/Shell, Figma, GitHub, iTerm, Javascript, MacBook Pro, Things

Favorite CSS feature

grid-template-areas: "header header header" "footer footer footer"