Jan Maarten – Design Engineering, Accessibility, and Privacy

I don't write annual postmortems or bother making resolutions for the New Year.

Full disclosure: I got nominated to write this post by my friend and comrade Eric Bailey (AGAIN), who got the idea from Marc Thiele.

I recently wrote a 2-part series over on the GitHub Blog about Design System Annotations.

In part one of our design system annotation series, we discussed the ways in which accessibility can get left out of design system components from one instance to another.

When it comes to design systems, every organization tends to be at a different place in their accessibility journey.

The platforms and culture of the internet have become so hostile that when I think about the annoying mass chain letters infesting my email inbox a few decades ago, I actually miss them.

In April, I published a ridiculously long piece (I'm sorry or you're welcome) about how our personal data is coerced out of us and grotesquely misused by large platforms and tech companies.

Hardly a day goes by without a headline that further proves why we should never have entrusted our identities and activities to companies like Facebook, Google, or X.

Feeling nostalgic and missing the now-shattered Twitter accessibility community, I scrolled back through my timeline over the weekend.

Since moving this site to Ghost(Pro), I've found very few gripes with it.

The CVS Health® Inclusive Design team has created new Figma annotation kits for multiple platforms.

Last updated: April 10, 2024 Having just rebuilt my portfolio using Ghost, the dust is still settling.

Yesterday, I took the CPACC exam.