Design Details

292: Building Design Systems (feat. Linzi Berry)


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This week, we welcome to the show Linzi Berry, a manager on Lyft's design system. Linzi enlightens us on how to implement, maintain, enforce, evangelize, and roll out a design system, and we discuss her super informative design blog, Tap to Dismiss. In Follow-up, we debate some Episode 300 suggestions, revisit the Figma UI refresh, and shout out a quality-of-life improvement in Sketch 54. And as always, we (all three of us!) share some cool things, including a historic photo, a video to help understand that photo, and an update on the Bobiverse.

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Follow-up:
  • Jonathan Fisher sent us some great ideas for Episode 300, including having Bryn back on the show
  • Send your Ep 300 ideas to us @designdetailsfm
  • Jason Csizmadi wishes we had talked more about the Figma UI Refresh
  • Sketch 54 has some nice quality-of-life improvements
  • Chris Doner wants some details about tactical usage of a design system
    • SMASH CUT TO:
    • Interview:
      • Linzi Berry (site) is a design manager on the Lyft Design System
      • She worked at Odopod on stuff for SpaceX, Tesla, Fitbit, and Audemars Piguet
      • Watch brands pop up in rap songs a lot thanks to Jay-Z and Beyoncé
      • WalkSF is "your advocate for safe streets for all"
      • Better Market Street is a collaboration "initiating a number of improvements to test ways to improve Market Street"
      • Michael Wang, formerly at Lyft, is a designer at Northstar
      • Peak2Peak is "the ultimate urban walking adventure"
      • Walk to Work Day is SF's "annual celebration of our walking city – and of everyone who walks"
      • Brown Bag Meetings are " informal meetings that occur in the workplace generally around lunchtime"
      • Colorbox is a tool created by Kevyn Arnott
      • Tap to Dismiss is Linzi's Medium blog that "sweats the details so you don't have to"
      • Divider Lines are deceptively hard
      • Sam Soffes coined the term "Choice Chip Bag"
      • Linda Dong is a design manager at Lyft, too
      • One Cool Thing:
        • Linzi shared the first photo ever taken of a black hole
        • Marshall shared "How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole", a video by Veratasium
        • Brian shared For We Are Many, Book 2 of the Bobiverse Trilogy by Dennis E. Taylor
        • Design Details on the Web:
          • We are @designdetailsfm
            • Brian is @brian_lovin
            • Marshall is @marshallbock
            • @Sarahberus and @Luperdev make us sound smarter than we are
            • Join the conversation on Spectrum or leave us a review on iTunes
            • BYEEEEE!

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