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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When you create tools that everyone in your organization uses, you're at risk of creating a bottleneck.
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Design decisions, whether in ideas or in products, accumulate over time and often for good reason.
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Identifying pain points and solving real problems is a good start.
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You are always marketing your team internally, and you need to grow its reputation over time.
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If you do UX (user experience) work, its your job to advocate for the user.
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A record of variations between proposed designs and existing components for better collaboration between engineers and designers.
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An exhaustive, intensely practical accessibility course.
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The more you apply these filters to your communication with others, the more valuable conversations with you will become.
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A few key challenges facing the field of design systems.
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How do you invite people to participate in ways they feel comforatble opening up?
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Comparing notes from yesterday's exercise.
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Comparing notes from yesterday's exercise.
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Comparing notes from yesterday's exercise.
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Putting into practice what we’ve learned.
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More collaboration = a design system that lasts longer and is resilient to organizational change.
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More collaboration = a design system that lasts longer and is resilient to organizational change.
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How does your team operate and interface with the rest of your company?
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How can design systems support native applications?
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How can design systems support native applications?
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How can design systems support native applications?
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The best system is one where users can easily understand and anticipate changes.
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The best documentation is dynamic, connected, relevant… and updated!
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The real power of design systems is in how their parts are connected.
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What does randomness have to do with creativity?
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What does randomness have to do with creativity?
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