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7: Why Don't Style Guides Ever Work?

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This week's special guest is Stanely Wood, design director at Spotify. We talk about how to scale design as companies grow, what it takes to create consistent experiences, and how style guides never work except when they do.

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    Stanley Wood

    Links and Show Notes Stanley Wood: Design Doesn’t Scale Introducing Design Systems Ops at Salesforce Nathan Curtis: A Design System isn’t a Project. It’s a Product, Serving Products Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language Apple's iOS Human Interface Guidelines Material design - Google design guidelines The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White

    William Strunk Jr.

    Adobe Design Rebrand on Behance Stanley Wood (@hellostanley) on Twitter
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