Hello World! 👋

It's New Year's Day 2025, and I'm sitting here with my coffee, finally launching something I've been working on for months—the Chassis Design System blog. This feels like the perfect way to kick off the year!

Why Another Design System?

You might be wondering, "Do we really need another CSS framework?" Trust me, I asked myself the same question countless times. But here's the thing—I kept running into the same frustrations on every project:

• Spending hours tweaking spacing and colors instead of building features
• Copying and pasting components between projects (and inevitably breaking something)
• Fighting with inconsistent designs across different pages
• Watching junior developers struggle with accessibility best practices

Sound familiar? Yeah, I thought so.

The Spark

The real "aha" moment came during a late-night debugging session last spring. I was trying to figure out why a button looked different on mobile versus desktop, and I realized I had 17 (yes, seventeen!) different button styles scattered across a single project. That's when I knew something had to change.

I started sketching out what a better workflow might look like. What if components just worked consistently? What if design tokens made color changes a breeze? What if accessibility wasn't an afterthought but baked right in?

Building in the Open

Instead of building yet another internal tool that only our team would use, I decided to build Chassis in the open. Every decision, every component, every line of CSS has been crafted with real-world projects in mind.

The best part? I've been dogfooding it on client projects for the past six months. Every time something didn't feel right, I'd iterate. When a component was too rigid, I'd make it more flexible. When the API was confusing, I'd simplify it.

What's Next?

This blog isn't going to be a boring announcement feed. I want to share the messy, real stuff:

• The time I accidentally broke every button on the internet (okay, just our staging site)
• How I convinced my team to adopt design tokens (spoiler: pizza was involved)
• The accessibility bug that taught me to never assume anything
• Performance optimizations that saved us 40KB of CSS

Want to Follow Along?

I'm planning to post here regularly—sharing behind-the-scenes stories, practical tutorials, and honest takes on the design system world. No marketing fluff, just real experiences from someone who's been in the trenches.

If you're building interfaces, wrestling with design consistency, or just curious about how design systems work in practice, stick around. I think you'll find it useful.

And hey, if you try Chassis on a project, I'd love to hear about it. Shoot me a message and tell me what worked, what didn't, and what you'd like to see next.

Here's to building better interfaces in 2025! 🥂

PS: If you're ready to dive in, the docs have everything you need to get started. But honestly? Just grab the CSS file and start playing around. That's the best way to learn.

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