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Design Systems WTF — 51 episodes

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How do you make developers to care about your design system?

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Is a design system mandate worth fighting for?

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Does your design system need a PM?

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What do you actually test?

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Do MCPs care more about patterns or components?

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Are we delighting enough in our design systems?

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Do our design systems give new joiners anxiety?

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What will happen in design systems in 2026?

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What's with the emotional baggage with design systems?

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Are we reducing complexity with design systems??

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Episode 44 - Should we care about consistency?

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Are we finally at the point of contextual documentation?

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Can you actually measure the ROI of a component?

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Should designers know how to code?

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Are accessibility guidelines enough to be inclusive?

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Are design systems a dead end?

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How big is too big for a design system?

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When is OK to snowflake?

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How much is too much documentation?

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Where should design systems sit in your org?

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Should we get rid of infinite scroll?

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Do design systems make teams go faster?

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Why isn’t contribution the answer?

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Live from Converge 2025: When should we be using AI?

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Why aren’t people contributing to the design system?

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Where can AI actually help with design systems?

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Live from Hatch: Do we need to stop making components?

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Why do we need to care more about patterns?

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How should we version design systems?

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Has AI made everyone a designer? A spicy conversation with Pablo Stanley

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WTF happened at Config?

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How do you prove the value of design systems?

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They downsized the design system team; how do we survive?

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What’s keeping design systems people up at night?

35

Should Figma be the source of truth?

36

Is using a pre-built frontend library realistic?

37

Future-proofing your design system

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How do we get past the MVP state?

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Building delight into your design system

40

Building a Global Design System

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Our design system Valentines

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Flexibility in Design Systems

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Design System Contributions

44

Design Systems Contracting

45

Design Systems Help Desk

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Design Systems Careers

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Design Systems and Accessibility

48

Should I use tokens today?

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AI and Design Systems

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Rewarding Contribution

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Getting buy-in for your design system