Git Had Every Version. I Still Lost the Design Story.The Starting Point For this product, I do not have a parallel Figma file. My design canvas is an HTML prototype backed by CSS tokens. I work through product and design decisions conversationally with Sep 10 · 9 min readux-maldo.hashnode.dev
I Put 20 UX Laws Into an AI Coding Brief. Then I Audited the Brief.The Starting Point I found Adam Hayes's post, [“The UX Laws in My CLAUDE.md”][1], and immediately understood the appeal. The premise is simple: an AI coding tool can produce a technically functional iSep 2 · 10 min readux-maldo.hashnode.dev
Session 3: The Component Spec Layer — Designing the SchemaSeries: What If a Design System Could Self QA?Author: C. MaldonadoDate: March 2026 Where We Picked Up Phases 1 and 2 were done. Tokens flow from Figma to code. Three QA scripts catch accessibility reMar 2 · 15 min readux-maldo.hashnode.dev
Session 2: Automated QA — WCAG, Contracts, and Impact TracingSeries: What If a Design System Could Self QA?Author: C. MaldonadoDate: February 2026 Where We Picked Up Between sessions, I'd done some homework. Spacing and typography tokens got created in Tokens Feb 18 · 10 min readux-maldo.hashnode.dev
Session 1: Pipeline + Color Token ArchitectureSeries: What If a Design System Could Self QA?Author: C. MaldonadoDate: February 2026 The Starting Point Our design system was in that awkward middle stage — we had Figma variables, dev had implemented their own version of our color tokens, and the ...Feb 18 · 8 min readux-maldo.hashnode.dev