Design System Office Hours

Apr 11 2025 78 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 76: Guy Segal and Design System Management and Ops

Apr 11 2025 49 mins

Our friend Guy Segal, Director of Design Systems at Thomson Reuters comes and talks with us about consistency in operations and how to scale out systems thinking.

Ep 75: Davy and PJ's DS Origins

Mar 27 2025 26 mins

We learn about PJ's start in design systems, dating back to 2011, and Davy's first introduction to it in 2015. They discuss while tech has evolved, aspects such as theming still remain a struggle to figure out. Also discussed is how we evolved our roles, and what might be suitable traits and tactics used by design system people in 2025.

Ep 74: Maintaining Large Component Libraries

Mar 08 2025 30 mins

Davy and PJ talk about design and code parity, how we keep our artifacts aligned with live product, and other nuances to maintaining large scale component libraries.

Ep 73: Component Migrations

Feb 24 2025 33 mins

Davy and PJ talk about the challenges of updating legacy components from yesteryear, and what it takes to migrate legacy code to new design system components. When is the suitable time to do this work?

Ep 72: Atomic Design

Feb 07 2025 31 mins

Davy and PJ talk about the concepts presented in Brad Frost's 2013 book, Atomic Design, and how a simpler format in present day with components, patterns, and screens may be common representation for design teams.

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.