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One rule per component

Our component docs got shorter and people started reading them.

Hands sketching phone screens on paper

5 min

Ilse Vos

Each component page in the Ostra library opens with one sentence: when to use it. Everything else is an example.

Why one

Two rules become five and nobody reads five. One rule gets quoted in reviews.

Where it breaks

Layout components need more than one sentence. We gave them diagrams instead.

Ilse Vos

Product designer who builds. Amsterdam, working remotely.

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