Abdalkadir El-Ghazali joins us from the Consumer Group Design System team at Intuit to talk about being a self-taught designer and engineer.

Links:

• CodeAcademy: https://www.codecademy.com/
• CS50: https://pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science?delta=0
• HackerRank: https://www.hackerrank.com/

Abdalkadir's Socials:

• Website: https://el-ghazali.com/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@dietzamzam

We're joined by Ben Callahan, who shares his experience as a founder of Sparkbox and helping organizations with their design systems.

Episode Links:

• Sparkbox: https://sparkbox.com/
• The Anatomy of a Design  System: https://sparkbox.com/foundry/design_system_makeup_design_system_layers_parts_of_a_design_system
• UnConference talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUQzEA_ahyc

Ben's Socials:

• Website: https://bencallahan.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bencallahan
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bencallahan/

We're joined by Crystal Ledesma, a Senior Engineering Manager working in Design Systems at Zillow.

Crystal's Links:

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystal-ledesma/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/sentbycrystal

Our final episode of 2022 covers design system documentation with Ayesha Mazrana, a design technologist on Pinterest’s design system team.

Episode Links: 

• Markdown: https://www.markdownguide.org/
• Sandpack: https://sandpack.codesandbox.io/
• Gestalt: https://gestalt.pinterest.systems/home
• Gestalt principles: https://www.toptal.com/designers/ui/g...
• GitHub pull requests: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-reque...

Ayesha’s Socials:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayeshakmaz/

Mae Capozzi joins us this episode to chat about what to consider when maintaining a component library.

Episode Links:

• Amplitude: https://amplitude.com/
• Nx: https://nx.dev/
• Turborepo: https://turbo.build/
• Lerna: https://lerna.js.org/
• Amplitude storybook plugin: https://github.com/amplitude/storybook-addon-amplitude
• Changesets: https://github.com/changesets/changesets

Mae's Socials:

• Personal: https://maecapozzi.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/MCapoz
• Newsletter: https://maecapozzi.com/newsletter

Catt Small joins us to discuss how her experience in game design has influenced her career, going from IC to design manager.

Episode Links: 

• Should you become a design manager?: https://cattsmall.com/advice/education/2021/10/07/why-become-design-manager.html
• Construct: https://www.construct.net/en
• Unity: https://unity.com/

Catt's Socials:

• Website: https://cattsmall.com/

In this episode, we're joined by Sameera Kapila who shares her background and insights around design education.

Episode Links:

• Inclusive Design Communities: https://abookapart.com/products/inclusive-design-communities
• Netlify: https://netlify.com/

Sameera's Socials:

• Website: https://samkapila.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamKap
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samkap/

On this episode, Kelly and Adekunle chat with Jack McCloy from Amplitude about building components for design systems.

Episode Links:

• Amplitude: https://www.amplitude.com/
• Vanilla Extract: https://vanilla-extract.style/
• Sprinkles: https://vanilla-extract.style/documentation/sprinkles-api/
• Storybook Amplitude Addon: https://storybook.js.org/addons/tag/amplitude

Jack’s Socials:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-mccloy
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackMcCloy

Building tools is one of the many responsibilities UX engineers have. In this episode we discuss tools that enhance the design and developer experiences.

Episode Links:

• https://nextjs.org/
• https://www.gatsbyjs.com/
• https://www.figma.com/
• https://www.figma.com/community/file/806626024182535168
• https://tina.io/
• https://zeroheight.com/
• https://www.gitbook.com/
• https://mdxjs.com/docs/

As hybrids, every day can be a new journey. In this episode, we discuss the typical day for UX engineers and some of the short and long term challenges we face.

Episode Links:

• iterm2: https://iterm2.com/
• oh my zsh: https://ohmyz.sh/
• GitHub Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/
• Storybook: https://storybook.js.org/
• Gists: https://gist.github.com/starred
• Loom: https://www.loom.com
• Andrew’s terminal setup: https://www.hipstersmoothie.com/garden/Terminal%20Setup
• Kelly’s setup: https://kellyharrop.com/blog/setup
• Principle: https://principleformac.com/
• Figma: https://www.figma.com/