[Weekend Drop] Adam Argyle: Complexity Cliffs, DX, and the Disruption of Web Design

<p>The following is my conversation with Adam Argyle, CSS Developer Advocate for Google Chrome.</p><p>Watch on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/xEyJ6LY7DKI">https://youtu.be/xEyJ6LY7DKI</a></p><p>The conversation covers a quite a few topics that are relevant in the webdev and web design industries: UI complexity cliffs, DX vs UX, Self Disruption, and what Web Design Tooling could be.</p><p>Along the way we touch on what OpenUI is, Adam's Deferred Inputs proposal, the 4 Jobs of Developer Experience, Thoughtleading for Good from Emily Freeman, Ilya Grigorik, and Dion Almaier, and Adobe vs Figma vs Webflow!</p><p><strong>Links: </strong></p><ul> <li>Button tweet https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1450333133300064259</li> <li>https://open-ui.org/</li> <li>https://jasonformat.com/application-holotypes/</li> <li>https://siliconangle.com/2021/09/29/devops-dummies-author-emily-freeman-introduces-revolutionary-model-modern-software-development-awsq3/</li> <li>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar</li> <li>Ilya Grigorik Perf.now talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIfVPtN6io</li> <li>Visbug https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/visbug/cdockenadnadldjbbgcallicgledbeoc?hl=en</li> <li>https://web.dev/learn/</li> </ul><p><br><strong>Timestamps:</strong></p><p>00:00:00 Cold open<br>00:01:05 Complexity Cliffs and the Reusable Button Problem<br>00:03:28 OpenUI<br>00:04:32 DevRel vs Personal work<br>00:05:52 DRY vs Design Systems<br>00:07:10 Building in Phases<br>00:08:04 Thought Leading for Good<br>00:10:33 Learning<br>00:14:13 The Surprising Complexity of Tabs<br>00:17:12 What is Open UI?<br>00:19:59 Hot Take: Deferred Inputs<br>00:23:40 Cathedral vs Bazaar<br>00:28:01 Illya Grigorik: Head/Torso/Tail<br>00:32:45 UX vs DX<br>00:45:51 4 Jobs of DX<br>00:50:33 Self Disruption<br>00:54:50 Adobe vs Figma vs Webflow<br>01:01:04 VisBug<br>01:05:05 Shameless Plugs</p><p><strong>Transcript</strong></p><ul> <li>swyx: Alright So the first thing we're talking about is ui complexity cliffs what's on your mi