Purging Design System ‘rot’ from our checkboxes

Accidentally discovering hidden accessibility issues, fixing it heuristically, and a few simple tricks to avoid future rot.

Chuck Rice
8 min readApr 12, 2024

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Two rows of 4 rounded checkbox squares, coloured in a “Pop Art” fashion. Each checkbox coloured different gradients, with contrasting background shades.
If Andy Warhol was also into Design Systems, he might have painted something like this.

Originally published via Moonpig Group Product on 11 April 2024.

Rot is a strong word, but it’s simply another way to frame or think about design debt or…

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Chuck Rice

Sr. Design Systems Designer @ Moonpig 🌙🐷 • Figma Community Advocate • 🎓 Educator: chk.fyi/LearnFigma • 383k+ Medium views • #DesignSystems #DesignOps.