Luke Bennett
Front-end and design systems developer passionate about accessibility, usability, and mentoring others.
Specialties
- Front-end Engineering,
- Accessibility,
- Training & Mentorship,
- React,
- GraphQL
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Building a Multi Brand Design System with Tailwind: Tips, Tricks and Tradeoffs
I recently wrapped up a project to help build a multi-brand design system. This article explores why we chose Tailwind CSS for styling and discusses the pros and cons of using it in this context.
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Building a Multi Brand Design System with Tailwind: Tips, Tricks and Tradeoffs
Lessons learned from using Tailwind CSS in a multi-brand design system project.
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Track: The Best Layout Component That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
“Track” is a layout component for distributing content horizontally. It has two “rails” (one on each end) and a flexible “center”. Once you start using this component, you realise you can use it everywhere.
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Using Keystatic as a CMS
Over the years I’ve experimented with numerous Content Management Systems. I believe Keystatic has the most potential to make blogging stick for developers like myself.
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Using CSS logical properties for internationalisation
We discuss the juiciest bits of an internal Slack conversation on design systems and logical properties. Served up with a dose of casual chat, two of our design systems experts – Joss Mackison and Luke Bennett – unpack best practices for the use of CSS logical properties for better internationalisation in design systems.
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Luke Bennett special guests on The NavBar pod
Luke Bennett joined Simon & John from The NavBar to review the exciting new announcements at Next Conf 2022, and the release of Next.js 13.
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