Sean Rice is a design leader working remotely from Pennsylvania. This site houses a history of his work and writings. https://seanrice.net/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:45:07 +0000 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:45:07 +0000 Jekyll v3.10.0 I've been exploring type scale relationships. It turns out, good type solutions are a lot like musical chords. Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://seanrice.net/design-system/typography/music/2023/01/02/type-is-a-lot-like-music.html https://seanrice.net/design-system/typography/music/2023/01/02/type-is-a-lot-like-music.html design-system typography music In this article, I discuss how I brought the team around to cleaning up their Sketch files, and the results the team achieved from the effort Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://seanrice.net/designops/sketch/2020/06/17/i-told-our-designers-their-sketch-files-were-full-of-trash.html https://seanrice.net/designops/sketch/2020/06/17/i-told-our-designers-their-sketch-files-were-full-of-trash.html DesignOps Sketch Designers radically believe that Design can solve anything—including the design experience itself. Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://seanrice.net/designops/design-thinking/2020/06/09/designing-the-design-experience.html https://seanrice.net/designops/design-thinking/2020/06/09/designing-the-design-experience.html DesignOps Design-Thinking With Sleuth for Sketch, you can easily measure impact of your shared libraries across your team’s sketch files. We’re releasing this tool for free to help DesignOps teams everywhere. Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://seanrice.net/designops/sketch/2020/01/24/introducing-sleuth-for-sketch.html https://seanrice.net/designops/sketch/2020/01/24/introducing-sleuth-for-sketch.html DesignOps sketch DesignOps amplifies the impact of design at scale. In other words, it helps managers, directors, and executives understand and utilize all of the various things design has to offer, while helping designers collaborate and deliver work more effectively. Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.designsystems.io/2019/10/31/standing-up-designops-at-keap/?ref=seanrice.net https://seanrice.net/designops/2019/10/31/standing-up-designops-at-keap.html DesignOps We use a custom SVG icon set in our apps. Here's how I've navigated some of the pitfalls — and there are a lot of them. Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://seanrice.net/code/design-system/2018/10/12/styling-svg-icons-with-css.html https://seanrice.net/code/design-system/2018/10/12/styling-svg-icons-with-css.html code design-system I made the switch from Sketch to Figma a month ago. Here's what I learned. Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:00:00 +0000 https://seanrice.net/user-experience/tools/2018/06/11/my-switch-to-figma.html https://seanrice.net/user-experience/tools/2018/06/11/my-switch-to-figma.html user-experience tools I design tool sets that need to interact with each other within the context of a larger ecosystem of apps. Here's a framework for describing the different layers involved. Sun, 27 May 2018 23:36:00 +0000 https://seanrice.net/user-experience/information-architecture/2018/05/27/designing-builder-tool-ecosystems.html https://seanrice.net/user-experience/information-architecture/2018/05/27/designing-builder-tool-ecosystems.html user-experience information-architecture You set out to build a design system, but you fell into a few common traps along the way. Disarm those traps before they put your efforts to a premature end. Fri, 25 May 2018 12:00:00 +0000 https://seanrice.net/user-experience/design-systems/2018/05/25/10-common-design-system-traps.html https://seanrice.net/user-experience/design-systems/2018/05/25/10-common-design-system-traps.html user-experience design-systems I'm moving from a career I loved at Tallwave to start a new adventure at Keap Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:00:00 +0000 https://seanrice.net/career/2017/06/17/onward.html https://seanrice.net/career/2017/06/17/onward.html career