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0 pointscsande176y ago0 comments

+1. A lot of design systems assume that, for instance, there are only a few amounts of vertical padding you'll ever want to have on an element. But sometimes, the designer really will tell you that something needs 10 pixels of padding, your 8-pixel "p-2" value is too small, and your 12-pixel "p-3" value is too large.

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harimau7776y ago

The problem that I see is that by making the decision that something needs to be pixel perfect the designer is often "volunteering" the engineer for an hour or more of fighting with CSS. In my experience the engineer is then expected to spend that time in addition to their normal workload.

The only ways I can see it working are either:

- Designers are obligated to follow the DLS.

- Any divergence from the DLS is pointed and therefore takes away from the number of points the engineer commits to for other tasks during a sprint.

rudiv6y ago

This is why I really like tailwinds, because for all the dynamically generated classes (90% of their utility classes) you can choose to use their scale (1unit=0.25rem) or just switch them all wholesale to a smaller increment so that when you need more specificity it's there.

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