Rune Madsen

@runemadsen

I explore code as a design material. Co-founder of @designsystemsin. Author of programmingdesignsystems.com. Former @nytimes, @oreillymedia and @itp_nyu

New York, NY designsystems.international Joined June 2008

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Rune Madsen @runemadsen Apr 17, 2024

"These core competences that were inherited from graphic design have been replaced with a poor man’s version of an anthropology major where the act of design is mostly based on averaging user opinions."
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designsystems.international Product Design Is Lost / Design Systems International How the field of product design lost its way — and how it can find its way back

Rune Madsen @runemadsen Oct 31

I’m so frustrated by existing font managers that I wrote my own, free CLI. github.com/designsystemsi…. No more paying monthly subscriptions or yearly licenses for such shallow functionality.

github.com GitHub - designsystemsinternational/sorts: A font manager for macOS that runs in the terminal A font manager for macOS that runs in the terminal - designsystemsinternational/sorts

Rune Madsen @runemadsen Nov 6, 2025

@cursor_ai I would really appreciate if every single one of your updates didn't overwrite the Cmd + e shortcut, which so many of us use to toggle through occurrences of words in our code editors.

Rune Madsen @runemadsen Sep 11, 2025

14 years ago, I had just spent weeks listening to the flight audio recordings from 9/11 in order to build this interactive story. It still seems to work and it’s worth a listen. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…

archive.nytimes.com The 9/11 Tapes: The Story in the Air A selection of audio recordings from the morning of September 11, 2001.

Rune Madsen @runemadsen Sep 3, 2025

More work on a new, dynamic visual identity!

Design Systems International @designsystemsin Sep 3, 2025

We’re crafting a new visual identity for a company that derives insights from complex, real-world data using AI. Our current focus is the website concept where images are compressed dynamically based on user interaction. Visual identity and website launching soon!

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