As a non-technical founder, it can be difficult to make your first technical hire, whether it’s for a full-time employee or a contractor. If you hire a designer who can’t build web experiences, you may end up with beautiful designs and no website. If you hire a developer who can’t…

I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about teams that don’t version their component library. I’ve only heard one success story. Not great odds for team no versioning. Sometimes teams don’t version their library because they want to automatically propagate newly-available changes across all subscribing applications. …

Picture a fully-fledged design system. You can bootstrap a new project, pull a bunch of components from the system, and have a page in minutes instead of days. When you’re first starting to build your own, it seems too good to be true. You might be asking yourself, “how do…

Written by Tim Brown and Mae Capozzi. This article was originally published on Design Systems. Most component libraries share an origin story. A growing company offers a new product or service; engineers write new code to support the new products; someone notices that the engineers keep rebuilding the same (or…

Flamingo has landed! Harry’s, Flamingo’s parent company, serves over one million female customers. We believe that women deserve high-quality, reasonably priced, and simple body care products too. As an engineering team, we are committed to providing women with a body care experience tailored to their specific needs. It’s important to…