CMCesar Maldonadoinux-maldo.hashnode.dev·Mar 2 · 15 min readSession 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 re00
CMCesar Maldonadoinux-maldo.hashnode.dev·Feb 18 · 10 min readSession 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 00
CMCesar Maldonadoinux-maldo.hashnode.dev·Feb 18 · 8 min readSession 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 ...00
CMCesar Maldonadoinux-maldo.hashnode.dev·Feb 18 · 3 min readWhat We're Building and WhyAuthor: C. Maldonado, Product Design @ KWIStarted: February 2026Status: In progress — living documentRepo: https://github.com/UX-Maldo/kwi-design-tokens This is a running diary documenting the build-out of a design system's infrastructure — from Fig...00