Styling Hillary

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A one-person effort builds the Pantsuit design system in six weeks, rewrites the CSS architecture, extracts reusable components and ships a living style guide consumed via npm + CDN + Slack bot. It standardizes UI across dozens of codebases and an ~80‑person tech org, uncovers missing focus states for accessibility, and automates publishes and docs. The system significantly speeds launches, earns engineering buy‑in, powers hillaryclinton.com features, and stays closed source due to real‑world misinformation risks.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:55MAY CONTAIN POLITICS
3. 8:19Multiple codebases. One UI.
4. 24:05How did you do it by yourself?
5. 24:29Collaboration
6. 33:47REDDIT IS A WASTELAND

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