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The past — give or take — two months my mind keeps wandering. How didn’t we realise before, that we kept missing the essential aspects of life? Our daily rush was overloading us, and humanity change was just a very long-shot scenario.

But, COVID-19 is here, and it is already changing our everyday lives.

What will the next day be like? Will our lives change forever?
Well, nobody can give us an accurate answer but surely, there is room for creating a better tomorrow for humanity.

“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.” …


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Perhaps you’ve heard some whispers in a conference you attended to or you’ve heard the words spill out from the mouth of a product manager, I hope so. Maybe you have even heard or read about the well known Material Design System from Google or even Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. The most famous, controversial, feared, life-saver yet most in-demand two words in the English language are:

“Design Systems.”

Well, you may already know what a design system is, or at the very least have heard the term before or searched the web what it really means. At a basic level, a Design System is a cohesive set of reusable components representing a brand’s language, serving as an overarching guide for a team to follow as they develop their product(s). …

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Jim Tsipoutas

Lead Designer @Stoiximan. Obsessed with design systems. Design Sprint Facilitator. Blockchain enthusiast.

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