Writing · Souha Sakly
Souha Sakly
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Notes from the seam between design and code.

Short, practical essays on design systems, token automation, AI product design, and data-dense interfaces — written from the work, not the theory.

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DESIGN SYSTEMS8 min · May 2026

Why your design tokens belong in a build step, not a spec

A spec describes intent; a pipeline guarantees it. How treating Figma as the source of truth ended visual drift on Infor RMS — and shipped a full dark theme in three months.

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// figma → prod
export --color-action: #0072ed;
export --surface-dark: #0e1014;
export --space-md: 16px;
✓ 0 hand-typed values
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PROCESS6 min · Mar 2026

A Definition of Done that designers and engineers both sign

When "done" means two different things, QA pays for it. The shared checklist that pulled visual review earlier on a large SaaS team.

AI PRODUCT DESIGN7 min · Jan 2026

Designing the interface of trust around an AI agent

For enterprise agents the design problem is rarely the model. It's transparency, boundaries, and the human checkpoint — the lessons behind Evai.

DATA VISUALIZATION9 min · Nov 2025

Attention is the scarce resource in data-dense UI

Designing dashboards is mostly the discipline of deciding what to de-emphasize. A field guide to visual hierarchy under heavy data.

Topics I write about
Design tokens Figma → code Angular & Signals Design-engineering AI product design Data visualization Accessibility

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