BUILD AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT

Teams don't slow down from lack of talent. They slow down from lack of clarity.

HUX partners with creative agencies and product teams to build the shared language that removes friction, sharpens decisions, and lets the work move.

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INDUSTRY SPECIALISTS

Trusted by designers

at some of the best teams in the world

SYSTEMS

TRAINING

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Workshops

Learn to build at the speed of thought with inperson no code and design system training.

SYSTEMS

INFRASTRUCTURE

Protect Our Winters

A new vision to turn passion into action and inspire a new generation of riders to protect where they play.

SYSTEMS

REACT APP

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Hargreaves Lansdown

Working across UI, UX, accessibility and product, We shaped the visual language and component architecture for the platform's first unified design system.

SYSTEMS

INFRASTRUCTURE

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Deep

Built complete brand and operational design system for ocean exploration company at NASA-scale—from submarines to mission patches to campus infrastructure.

TRAINING

TRANSFORMATION

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Hey! What?

Five-day systems training that transformed agency from platform dependency to £60k+ in new Webflow sales and promoted designer to senior role.

DOCUMENTATION

AI

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Gendo AI

Created product documentation architecture for generative AI design tool that improved code quality and designer-developer communication.

WEBFLOW

ENVIRONMENTAL

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Moshun Earth

Web development and Webflow build under tight deadline with custom brand implementation and seamless client handover.

THOUGHTS
THOUGHTS

ARTICLES

DESIGN TOKENS

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SPRING / SUMMER

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SPRING / SUMMER

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SPRING / SUMMER

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SPRING / SUMMER

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HUX partners with product teams to build, adopt, and scale practical design systems.

Hamish Duncan is a Design Systems Architect. He runs HUX, a design systems consultancy for creative agencies and product teams. Coherent for humans. Structured for engineers. Machine-readable for AI. Design as a shared language.

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HAMISH DUNCAN

09.05.26

Systems Thinkers

Research Paper

The minds behind the method.
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AI WORKFLOW

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The MCP Tool That’s Changed How I Design

DESIGN TOKENS

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Design Tokens Unpacked

CEL METHODOLOGY

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CEL 
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THE MOUNTAIN METAPHOR

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The Mountain Metaphor

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FOR TEAMS

All flow.
No friction.

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