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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
5 Jun 2025
👀 Do you Design Systems consultancy or front-end development for your project?

📅 I have availability and would love to help!

👇 Here's some recent work.

💡 Got something coming up, let’s chat!

🌐 Visit alwaystwisted.com or email me at stu@alwaystwisted.com

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A composition of elements from the Visual Framework homepage for EMBL, showcasing design system guidelines, component examples, and accessibility features. The design employs a green and white colour scheme. The caption reads, 'Developed the front-end architecture and guidelines for EMBL's new Design System, ensuring scalability and maintainability throughout the project.'A composition of elements from the Elements Design System homepage, featuring clean layouts, design tokens, and component guidelines. The design utilises a light theme with blue accents. The caption reads, 'Assisted with front-end work across multiple sites, helped create the new Design System documentation site, implemented design tokens.'
A composition of elements from the UCL site-wide search system, highlighting search functionality, filters, and a clean user interface. The design features a modern layout with blue and white tones. The caption reads, 'Created the front-end for a comprehensive site-wide search system, enhancing UX and the existing Design System.'A composition of elements from the Monotype Marketing Design System, featuring interactive type specimens, bold typography, and a user-friendly interface. The design adopts a minimalist aesthetic with black and red accents. The caption reads, 'Created the Monotype marketing Design System, developed tools for interactive type specimens, launched the Shopify storefront.'
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Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧
@TiceRichard
Oct 9
Durham County Council under Reform leadership WINNING 4 national awards last night

@cathynewman @SkyNews will this be reported by you in the interests of balance?

Or will you continue with your anti reform political activism in breach of Ofcom guidelines
Cllr Andrew Husband / Reform Leader Durham
@ReformDurham
Oct 9
Did somebody say chaos in Durham County Council?

Nope - just @cathynewman and a few bitter ex Reformers booted out of the party. Looking forward to the coverage @SkyNews

Durham Council winning “Organisation of the Year” along with 3 other awards last night at the UK Active ham ICC
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Marie Bell
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Sep 5
Replying to @TiceRichard
@TiceRichardard, any gain you made at conference you just lost..why are you calling peaceful protesters thugs? Did it ever occur to you they covered their faces as you lose your job for social media support in this country..I hate to say this Rupert got it,you and nigel sound just like the tories.
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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Aug 14
👋 Ahoy hoy!

Do you, your team, or someone you know need some front-end or Design Systems help?

I'm currently available for short/medium term freelance bits and bobs.

Get in touch

stu@alwaystwisted.com

alwaystwisted.com

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Aug 11
🎉 new post

I was reading Chris Coyier's post on CSS @layer ordering and wondered how Design Tokens could know which layer they belong to…

Solving CSS @layer Ordering in Design Systems with Design Token Metadata

alwaystwisted.com/articles/exten…

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Aug 6
🎉 new post!

Dynamic Colour Schemes With Modern CSS

What magical CSS can we use to create not just a quick and dirty colour palette, but a whole colour scheme?

Anogulous? Complementary? Triadic?

It's all here!

alwaystwisted.com/articles/dynam…

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Jun 17
🤘New post: From Proposal to Release: Designing Your Design System Workflow

Stop your Design System from stalling to a halt and losing trust by starting with its workflows

alwaystwisted.com/articles/from-…

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Jun 10
from the archives:

What Else Can We Do With Design Tokens?

We can store design decisions sure, but we could add some key information for tooling, documentation, and more.

alwaystwisted.com/articles/what-…

#DesignSystems #DesignTokens #WebDesign

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Jun 3
You've inherited a codebase and wondered what media queries are being used and how old they could be?

Introducing media query palaeontologist (the name needs work) as part of the ReliCSS front-end archeologists toolkit

alwaystwisted.com/relicss/media-…

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Jun 1
A huge thanks to @zeroheight for sponsoring this weeks issue of Design Systems News with their 2026 State of AI in Design Systems Report.

find the report here: zeroheight.com/resources/stat…

sign up to Design System News - news.design.systems

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
May 13
⭐ new blogpost ⭐

Linting Your Design Tokens - The Where And The When

You know you should lint, but where in your workflow does it actually live and when is it best to check?

alwaystwisted.com/articles/where…

#DesignSystems #DesignTokens #FrontEnd
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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
May 6
⭐ new blogpost ⭐

Linting Your Design Tokens - The What And The Why

Designers update Figma. Devs sync tokens. Users see issues. Catch the bugs before they ship – add linting to your toolset:

alwaystwisted.com/articles/linti…

#DesignSystems #DesignTokens #FrontEnd
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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
May 5
💔 Front-End Developer Seeking Meaningful Contracts

Looking for a new partner for your next project?

I specialise in front-end architecture and design systems, crafting beautiful user experiences & enhancing legacy code.

Let’s make something amazing!

stu@alwaystwisted.com
A close-up of a printed newspaper-style advertisement featuring various job seekers in the tech industry. The highlighted section reads "Front-End Developer" and states: "Seeking short/mid-term contracts to create stunning user experiences. Expert in CSS, design systems, tokens, and component libraries." The text is surrounded by a red circle for emphasis.
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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Apr 23
⭐ New Blogpost ⭐

Design Token naming conventions explained.

It covers the 3-tier model, 5 common naming patterns, plus practical rules for handling variants, states, and modes.

Make your tokens scalable from day one.

alwaystwisted.com/articles/desig…

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Apr 22
⭐ available for client work ⭐

Front-end developer & Design Systems consultant with 15 years experience building component libraries, modernising legacy codebases, writing docs & launching new projects

Let's fix your tech debt or create something new

stu@alwaystwisted.com
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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Feb 24
🎉 Looking for new work 🎉

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com
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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
Jan 5
The dust of decades settles on your keyboard, your fedora casts shadows over cryptic CSS hacks from another era. "This belongs in a museum" you mutter

ReliCSS: The front-end archaeologist's tool for navigating legacy CSS

alwaystwisted.com/relicss/

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
5 Dec 2025
I'm working on a bespoke design tokens solution for a client, every organisation is different and there's never a 'one size fits all' solution

Looking for help?

Together, we can create a tailored design tokens strategy that helps you and your team

hire@sturobson.com

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
24 Nov 2025
It's Monday, it's nearly 9am, which means you've got one hour until the latest Design Systems News email will be hitting your inboxes.

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Get a curated slice of the best Design Systems articles, tutorials, tips, and examples.

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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
22 Nov 2025
Working on a little web app that can cross post to both Mastodon and Bluesky, getting burned on pushing images to Bluesky so I've switched gears to tidy up the UI a little bit

#BuildInPublic #WIP #DevJourney #SideProject
A screenshot of a social media posting interface for "SkyTrunk" platform. The interface includes: • Orange "SkyTrunk" logo in the top left corner
 • A menu button in the top right
 • A text input field labeled "What's happening?" (currently empty) with 0/300 character count
 • An image upload section marked as optional with a "Choose File" button (no file selected)
 • An alt text field for accessibility with placeholder text "Describe the image for accessibility"
 • A checked checkbox option to "Also post to Mastodon"
 • An orange "Post it" button
 • Footer text reading "Made with ❤️ by @sturobson" The interface appears to be designed for posting content with accessibility features and cross-posting capability to Mastodon.
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@sturobson.com 🦋@StuRobson
21 Nov 2025
🎉 Just published: a new Design Tokens article 🎉

"Generating Utility Classes from Design Tokens using Style Dictionary"

alwaystwisted.com/articles/a-des…

Create consistent utility classes directly from design tokens for both flexibility _and_ consistency.

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