Design System Office Hours

Jan 24 2025 73 ep. 33 mins 24
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Davy and PJ, design system practitioners talk about design-led product ownership, scaling and adoption, community and engagement, design system team models, and much more.

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Ep 71: Reviewing Work from Product Designers

Jan 24 2025 36 mins  
In our second recent episode about reviewing work, Davy and PJ talk about how we review output from product designers on our teams and the need to stay plugged in so we can help designers earlier in the process.

Ep 70: Comms

Jan 08 2025 30 mins  
While the podcast is one form of communication, on our teams we heavily utilize async written communication methods to best spread the good work of design systems. We talk about the different methods we communicate to stakeholders and consumers of our design system artifacts, specifically, documentation.

Ep 69: Design System Crits

Dec 19 2024 36 mins  
Davy and PJ dive into the various ways we've utilized crits on our teams to both do design ops related work, but also reviewing code, in addition to design.

Ep 68: IC Performance

Dec 06 2024 37 mins  
Topical for the time of year, Davy gets PJ to spill some beans on how to best set up designers to best prove the value of their day-to-day work in design systems.

Ep 67: Medium-ish Sized Teams

Nov 15 2024 33 mins  
While we touched on teams of one, which is quite common in our community, how do we function in medium size teams of 3+ designers, and how can we effectively, and intentionally scale.

Ep 66: a11y Again

Oct 30 2024 31 mins  
In our second episode dedicated to accessibility in design systems, Davy and PJ talk about the surface level explorations of color contrast, then learning more about how to better design for screen readers, for a better web experience.

Ep 65: DS POV from Engineering w/ Matt Petitt

Oct 15 2024 44 mins  
We start our series with learning about how design systems interact and help our other team members from different disciplines. We start with Matt Petitt, Engineering Manager at Dayforce.

Ep 64: Efficiency x Velocity

Oct 03 2024 29 mins  
Davy and PJ talk in depth about the perils of chasing efficiency, and how we approach measuring effort and time-saved. And does this tie into velocity at all?

Ep 63: Shifts in Priorities

Sep 17 2024 42 mins  
In the tough market of design team contractions, Davy and PJ talk about how to maintain focus and stability as a horizontal design practice.

Ep 62: Diving Into Figma's REST API

Sep 06 2024 33 mins  
On this episode, PJ talks about his time using Figma's REST API and how with so much data collected, we just need it to do a little more for us.