https://www.chenk.top/en/tags/design-systems/Recent content in Design Systems on Chen Kai BlogHugoenMon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://www.chenk.top/en/product-thinking/03-ux-design/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://www.chenk.top/en/product-thinking/03-ux-design/<h2 id="the-problem-with-just-make-it-look-good" class="heading-anchor">The Problem With &ldquo;Just Make It Look Good&rdquo;<a href="#the-problem-with-just-make-it-look-good" class="heading-link" aria-label="Permalink to this section" title="Copy link to this section">#</a> </h2><p>Every engineer who has ever touched CSS knows the feeling: you open a stylesheet written six months ago and find forty-seven shades of grey, twelve font sizes that follow no discernible scale, and a dark mode implementation consisting of <code>filter: invert(1)</code> on the body element. The code works. The site renders. But every new feature requires archaeology — digging through layers of ad-hoc decisions to figure out what the &ldquo;right&rdquo; shade of muted text is supposed to be.</p>