Design Systems Podcast
Design Systems Podcast interviews industry leaders and product makers to share best practices and explore the areas where design and development come together.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 136
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
76. Christophe Coutzoukis Design System Lead: Building Thriving Design System Communities
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Christophe and Chris discuss the art of building thriving design system communities. They share their profound insights and experiences, offering valuable pers…
75. Adam Sedwick Senior Product Manager: Harnessing the power of design systems to unify your team
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Adam and Chris discuss the power of design systems and their ability to break down barriers between designers and developers.
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74. Richard Banfield, Advisor & Recovering CEO: What does iterative work look like in design systems?
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Richard and Chris discuss iterative work and how integral thinking by doing is when progressing work forward.
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73. Sheryl Cababa Chief Strategy Officer at Substantial: Using system thinking to make informed decisions
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Sheryl and Chris discuss the complexities of the design system space as it involves human behaviours.
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72. Danielle MacDonald Creative Head, Digital Product Design: Designing to scale
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Danielle and Chris discuss the impact designing at scale will have on ROI.
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71. Chris Deluca Senior Front-End Developer: People are the heart of design systems
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Chris Deluca and Chris discuss the significance of prioritizing people in the process of developing design systems. They explore a central question that consi…
70. Pinata's Kendall Totten interviews Knapsack CEO Chris Strahl: Design with code and AI
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Kendall and Chris discuss how design systems represent the strategic platform for how a company creates product.
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69. The single source of truth mentality: Meta Part Two
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A round table discussion hosted by Chris and Andrew from Knapsack with the Meta Blueprint team, part two.
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68. Driving Consistency Across Systems with Meta Part One
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A round table discussion hosted by Chris and Andrew from Knapsack with the Meta Blueprint team (part one).
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67. Design Token Takes Part Two: Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent and Darren Simons
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Kaelig, Darren, and Chris talk tokens and code: “Using a whole different type of brain.”
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66. Design Token Takes Part One: Amber Stickel and Taylor Cashdan
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Amber, Taylor, and Chris talk tokens; the pros and cons.
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Amber Stickel, Principal Design Technologist at Intuit
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65. Morgane Peng Managing Director & Head of Design at Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking: Is a design system a business asset or a technical asset?
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Morgane and Chris discuss the idea that many design systems pitch themselves as a technical asset. However, design systems can extend past this notion to offer…
64. Evan Lovely CTO & Co-Founder of Knapsack: Source of truth should be the user experience
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Evan and Chris discuss source of truth and how it is linked most importantly to overall user experience opposed to just design or code.
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63. Jennie Yip Principal Design Architect from Atlassian Design System: Building design systems, following the path of least resistance
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Jennie and Chris discuss following the path of least resistance when building design systems. It must feel natural and easier for the people using the system, …
62. Avery Oldt Head of Design and Research from Amazon: Scaling ideas to systems
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Avery Oldt and Chris discuss the importance of scaling ideas, systematic thinking, and cross-team integration for product delight and success.
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61. Jack McCloy Engineering Manager from Amplitude: The Purpose of Design Systems
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Jack McCloy and Chris discuss the purpose of a design system and its ability to iterate faster, build better, more accessible, consistent products. Not only sa…
60. Adekunle Oduye from Plaid: Systems and solving problems for its users
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Adekunle and Chris cover a number of topics spanning from the importance of flexibility, connection, communication, collaboration and designing systems to ulti…
59. Jennifer D’Amato, Senior UI/UX Designer and Donnie D’Amato, Senior Engineer: Design systems reflect those who use, maintain and are a part of it
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Jen, Donnie and Chris discuss how design systems reflect the people a part of it, who use it and who maintain it; and the importance of collaboration, that sys…
58. Michael Jeter, Creative Director from Zapier: Systems have always been a part of solving design problems
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Michael and Chris discuss how systems have always been prominent when solving problems within designs and the importance they have in connecting and enabling e…
57. Francesco Cutolo from Klarna: Start from scratch, or build on existing design systems, which is more viable?
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Francesco and Chris discuss the importance of foundational concepts like code, that help secure buy-in and prove value within an organization. Thus, supportin…