Atila Fassina

A Recipe For A Good Design System — Smashing Magazine

Maintaining a design system is a lot of work. In this article, Atila Fassina shares his lessons learned and how a platform such as Backlight can help put together a series of tools to speed up your architecture setup. In theory, everybody has a relatively similar concept for what a “Design System” means, though nuances […]

Open-Source Meets Design Tooling With Penpot — Smashing Magazine

Penpot helps designers and developers work better together by offering a free, open-source design tool based on open web standards. Today, let’s explore its newly released Penpot Plugin System. So now, if there’s a functionality missing, you don’t need to jump into the code base straight away; you can create a plugin to achieve what

The Hype Around Signals — Smashing Magazine

From KnockoutJS to modern UI libraries like SolidJS, Vue.js, and Svelte, signals revolutionized how we think about reactivity in UIs. Here’s a deep dive into their history and impact by Atila Fassina. The groundwork for what we call today “signals” dates as early as the 1970s. Based on this work, they became popular with different

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