Design Systems Daily
Each day, I write daily bite-sized chunks of insight about building digital products at scale. Topics covered include user research, design systems, and team collaboration... with infrequent silliness and irreverence thrown in for good measure.
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👇 Here's what I've written so far:
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If you can't identify a goal for a meeting, cancel it.
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I’m always looking for clearest way to communicate insights from complicated data sets, and this chart just hit right.
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Useful tips for large UXR practices.
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The thin line between inclusivity and quality research.
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Design systems work, like gardening, takes time and patience and a lot of attentive tending.
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Pause, breath, reflect.
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The beauty of cross-discipline thinking in an increasingly complex world.
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Small artifacts that create asynchronous ways to clarify and convince people of the merits of your proposal (and welcome feedback in lower-pressure settings).
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Let's do everything we can to help each other, even if the all we can do at the moment is be vulnerable and authentic.
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Discovering the real value of what you're building.
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Create something that everyone at your org understands, document and publicize it well, and use it consistently.
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In short, sea squirts make terrible product managers.
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Never underestimate the power of an existing user base.
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Don't let your design system become a little waterfall that solves problems only in theory.
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Do people want to use the products your company is building? Do they understand how to use them? How do you know?
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Do any of these resonate with you? What have you noticed about design systems work that fails?
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When naming variables, don’t forget the promised value of a design system — simplified consistency.
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If you want to improve the process of building digital products, you have to consider the structures and incentives that drive people.
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A tool to assist and support designers, not replace them.
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A ton of big updates to Figma were announced yesterday at Config 2023. Here’s a big list.
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The systems and processes you build to deliver on your value proposition are key assets for your organization.
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Research insights that lead to improving your shared resources will benefit everyone who uses them.
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