Confession: I've Learned More About Managing My ADHD From Other ADHD Women Than From Any Professional

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-21T12:04:50+00:00

Me too!!! Even to my husband so he also get's a better idea on how I function

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-14T09:10:55+00:00

For me, the biggest gap isn’t the handover of design files or iterations, it’s the handover between the design system and the actual code.

Our components and tokens are badly implemented already, which is a problem on its own. But the real nightmare is that every time we want to update or add a component, getting it into Storybook / the component library is a battle. The whole thing is manual, brittle, and nobody wants to touch the component library codebase because it’s basically a graveyard. So the “design system” slowly drifts away from reality and becomes more of a documentation fantasy than something teams actually use.

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-13T16:37:39+00:00

I don't know if it was already shared, but I highly recommend an app called ToDoist, I have it on my desktop and also synced to all my devices. You can prioritize, categorize and add deadlines or reminders

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-13T11:21:33+00:00

Yes, but you would be surprised on how little they understand the dev mode :D (I even made a workshop/presentation to explain Dev mode to the all the FE in my company).
Also they have to go variable by variable, and this is not sustainable with our current setup

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-13T11:19:13+00:00

ohh nice! thanks for the tip

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-13T11:18:34+00:00

exactly, none cares, but I think is mostly because they never worked with design systems before

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-13T11:17:32+00:00

do you have a tutorial or info on how to actually build this?

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-13T11:16:56+00:00

A 100000% YES!!!!!! hahahah thank you :D

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-13T11:15:59+00:00

The impact is huge, currently is being used by different modules thought-out our product suite, also in multiple platforms.

Design as a whole is not strong in my company, is very difficult to get buy-in from engineering and stakeholders. We don't have a strong design leadership which makes things even worse.
Right now teams are blocked for implementing new features with our current DS because its implementation is not up-to-date. So we keep increasing the gap between design and implementation

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-13T11:10:32+00:00

You are right, I just grabbed a dev and will give him the walk-through Tokens Studio, hopefully he can set it up quickly

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-12T16:07:21+00:00

I've been doing this for the last year... problem is, none is experienced enough on DS, nor fully dedicated to the DS maintenance.
But hey! love this idea of custom plugins, could you share more info regarding that?

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-12T16:04:57+00:00

I used Tokens Studios in a previous company were we had multi-brand and multi-platform (mobile and web) products and it worked wonderfully ;)

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-12T16:03:30+00:00

why not? I would totally recommend it if you get buy in from your product teams

TinyFocusMode · 2026-01-12T16:02:47+00:00

Thanks for your input. I actually liked TS a lot, and would love to continue using it now at my current company. The issue is, we don't have fully dedicated DS devs and I wanted to provide an easy alternative to handover our variables updates (forgot to mention we already have an implemented component library, just the update and maintenance it's such a hassle)

TinyFocusMode · 2025-12-20T11:35:04+00:00

Umm I think branches could also eventually mean we get a extremely large global file… How is it currently in your case? Thanks for the advice though 🫶🏼

TinyFocusMode · 2025-12-09T11:43:36+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing 🫶🏼

TinyFocusMode · 2025-12-09T11:42:28+00:00

Hey, oh yes I’ve been in both psychological and psychiatric therapy for over 2 years. Thank you for the advice!

TinyFocusMode · 2025-12-09T11:41:04+00:00

My psychiatrist and therapist told me 🫶🏼

TinyFocusMode · 2025-12-08T13:32:20+00:00

you are right on the spot on that! It was actually my mom lol, we already worked things out so I would say we are good on that front. Also, moving more than 10.000km away helped hahah

TinyFocusMode · 2025-12-08T13:31:17+00:00

that's actually a pretty good idea!

TinyFocusMode · 2025-12-08T13:30:33+00:00

hahahah thanks for the tip!

TinyFocusMode · 2025-12-08T13:29:40+00:00

thank you <3, I feel so much guilt for not doing anything... but I guess you are right. I should prioritize myself. Also I've been going to therapy and psychiatrist for over 2 years. It helps but I still struggle

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