Margin considered harmful

Max on why we should ban margins at the component level:

Margin conflicts with how designers think. Designers think about space in relation and context. They define how far a component should be from another component in a specific instance.

By banning margin from all components you have to build more reusable and encapsulated components.

Makes sense to me. It’s all about relationships between things. As Matisse said, “I don’t paint things. I paint the difference between things.”