Guillaume Meigniez Blog

I recently published a 2 parts blog post regarding the challenges inherent to building typography design tokens.

In part 1 we saw that most design systems don't consider how fonts work on the web when building their tokens system.

Let's say you are a designer or a developer maintaining a design system for the web.

For 2 years, I was working at a French publicly funded company building software for tens of thousands of teachers and culture professionals, and for millions of French teenagers.

I started playing chess on chess.com in 2013.

I recently subscribed to Frontend Masters and started watching some of their online courses.

"Design Engineer" seems to be the most popular umbrella title right now for people working at the intersection of design and front-end development.

A non-negligible proportion of developers code with the help of generative AI.

Building an internal design system at my company is an exciting position as it pushes me to dig into the frontend and design decisions history as much as it frees space to reorganise parts of the apps.

At work this week we noticed that the package react-autosize-textarea of our React frontend app had dependencies that were not kept up to date.

Last time I worked on this website, I was confident I had built something clean, well designed and accessible.

In the beginning of 2022, I have built for the Forbidden Stories platform their one year anniversary map of the Project Pegasus initial release.

Pour la documentation de la collection André·e Lawrance *Beginner*, je suis allé le temps d'un week end avec 4 amis sur l'île de Groix en Bretagne.

SparkAR is Facebook's powerful and surprisingly accessible tool for creating 3D scenes that can be used as Facebook or Instagram filters.

In the summer of 2021 I went to Brittany to see family.

The goal is to make bags for André·e L. that are solid and convenient.

Oops I did it again...

In 2020 I started sewing again.

Data humanism Data is an imperfect abstraction of the world.