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
17. Varun Vachar from Rangle: The design graph and computational design
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Varun Vachar and Chris discuss the “design graph,” creating choice in governance models, building a foundation of tools when setting up new systems, and using …
16. Adam Argyle from Google: Making your design system freeing vs. constraining
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Adam Argyle and Chris venture into “spicy opinion” territory and discuss when design systems are freeing vs. constraining, creating appropriate “offramps” for …
15. Stephen Gates: What are you doing about the people and trust aspects of your design system?
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Stephen Gates (currently at InVision; formerly at Citi and Starwood) and Chris discuss advice for leaders needing to drive adoption and success of their design…
14. Mina Markham: Building shared culture and better collaboration between designers and developers
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Mina Markham (currently at Slack, formerly at Hillary For America and IBM) and Chris discuss getting executive buy-in, how to create space to continue advancin…
13. Micah Godbolt: Design and code meeting in the middle with Fluent UI at Microsoft
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Chris and Micah discuss creating a singular design system that scales to support a massive app ecosystem, using tokens to align design across disparate product…
12. Ethan Marcotte: Design systems and the evolution of how we work
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Chris and Ethan discuss the parallels between design systems and responsive web design in terms of the impact on how teams design/develop digital products, cre…
11. Brad Frost and Evan Lovely: Code is the source of truth
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Chris talks with Brad Frost and Evan Lovely about why code is the real source of truth, how to bring designers and developers together around the code, and the…
10. Jeremy Keith: Overcoming entropy and turning chaos into order
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Chris and Jeremy Keith discuss imbuing teams with a shared sense of ownership of their design system, creating design systems able to address unforeseen scenar…
9. Charles Hall: Accessibility is good for your products and great for your business
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Chris and Charles Hall talk about the impact of accessibility, how to build more accessible products, and the role design systems play in creating accessible o…
8. Salem Ghoweri: Bolt Design System and front-end architects
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Chris talks with Salem about what a front-end architect actually does, they breakdown of web components (what they are and who uses them), cover the tools Pega…
7. Skip Newberry: Technology and design in government
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Chris talks to the President and CEO of the Technology Association of Oregon (TAO), Skip Newberry. While Skip may not work in the DS community day-to-day, he h…
6. Marco Suárez: Buying into design systems
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Chris chats with Marco Suárez about his design experiences in the early days, before the term 'design systems' was official. The two walk through how to drive …
5. Tatiana Mac: Design and inclusivity
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Chris talks with Tatiana Mac about ensuring design systems, specifically components, are accessible. The two discuss accessibility testing tools, being sure to…
4. Dan Mall: How do design systems work in enterprise organizations?
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Dan Mall calls in from the East coast to chat with Chris about design systems and their role in enterprise organizations. How does this affect the teams that w…
3. Emily Campbell: Design and code convergence
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Chris and Emily Campbell discuss the convergence of design and code, and what that actually looks like. They walk through what a designer role looks like in a …
1. Evan Lovely: What are design systems?
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In the pilot episode of the Design Systems Podcast, host Chris Strahl talks with Evan Lovely about design systems as a whole. What are they? Who are they meant…