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James Carleton

DS Leadership Summit

I had the opportunity to attend the Design Systems Leadership Summit by Knapsack in San Francisco. It was a great event with insightful…

6 min read3 days ago

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Photo of the interior of the SVB Experience Center with PJ Onori standing in from of a small audience talking about Buy-in.

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James Carleton

Typography Variables

Tada!🎉 Figma just announced the release of Typography Variables at their Framework event.

2 min read5 days ago

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An illustration representing typography design tokens. Source: Figma

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James Carleton

Visions of the future

So with my extra time after the layoff, I decided to try out the device everyone is talking about, the Apple Vision Pro. This new spatial…

4 min readFeb 12, 2024

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James Carleton

Book Notes — Design That Scales

I’ve followed Dan Mall’s work for a long time and I’ve enjoyed watching him share and teach what he’s learned about design systems. When I…

4 min readFeb 6, 2024

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Book cover: Design That Scales by Dan Mall

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James Carleton

Accessibility Strategies

Building experiences that work well for a diverse range of customers is a key part of living out our values of inclusion at PayPal…

4 min readJan 9, 2024

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James Carleton

Fostering collaboration in design systems

Is your design system focused on the artifacts and ignoring the people? Make collaboration part of every stage of your design process.

11 min readOct 12, 2023

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Title slide: Fostering Collaboration in Design Systems

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James Carleton

Stand Out With Your Story

Video, slides and notes from my talk at ADPList.org’s BeMore Conference on September 20, 2023

7 min readSep 20, 2023

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Title slide: Stand out with your story.

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James Carleton

UI Traps — Sliders

Don’t be trapped by the allure of the slider.

5 min readAug 4, 2023

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Photo of an audio engineering soundboard with sliders

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James Carleton

UI Traps: Disabled Buttons and Inputs

User Experience/User Interface design is about making a system as usable for the user as possible. User is in the name!

4 min readJun 16, 2023

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Disabled button labeled Don’t even think about it.

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James Carleton

Mentoring Year In Review

Mentoring on ADPlist.org

2 min readMar 9, 2023

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Mentoring Year In Review

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James Carleton

James Carleton

I ♥ design. I'm a UX designer + family man in silicon valley. Currently obsessing over design systems at PayPal. (Legal dept says opinions are my own.)

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