Sana Iqbal

Design systems fail at the handoff, not the design.

Northlight

Northlight came out of watching the same failure at three companies: a beautiful token set in Figma, a slowly diverging set in code, and nobody with the authority to reconcile them.

The fix was not a better plugin. It was making the code the source of truth and generating the Figma side from it.

Writing

I write about design engineering — the practice, the job title fights, and the specific technical problems that show up when design and code share a repo.