The Design System Guide

By Romina Kavcic

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The Design System Guide episodes:

December 12, 2024Phillip Lovelace (Kajabi) - Rebranding everything
Phillip Lovelace is a Senior UX developer at Kajabi. He is passionate about design systems, user experience, web development, product design, and optimizing website performance. Highly enjoys crafting unique and forward-thinking user interfaces using well-structured markup and styling across desktop and mobile platforms.
Phillip has over 20 years of experience in understanding and developing products from concept ideas into production and a strong background in search engine optimization (SEO) and website performance.
Takeaways:
Web Components

Leadership played a key role

Communication is key and it can be tough."

Versioning strategy

Naming things is hard

Moving too fast can cause mistakes

Preparation and maintenance for a rebrand.

Understanding design tokens is vital for consistency

Cross-functional teams, why

Linting

🌍 Official Website: https://thedesignsystem.guide/interview-phillip-lovelace
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48min
December 05, 2024 Raquel Pereira (Nokia) - Don't depend on tools
Interview with Raquel Pereira, Lead UX designer (Design Systems) at Nokia 🔥
🙌 Takeaways:
🔹 Nokia is providing network solutions.
🔹 Maintaining consistency.
🔹 Collaboration between designers and developers
🔹 Documentation and communication are key challenges
🔹 Prioritizing components, organizing design files
🔹 Using design tokens vs variables
🔹 Figma Analytics
🔹 A design system is not just a local library
🔹 Understanding user needs
🔹 Complexity is easy; simplicity is the challenge.
🔹 You don't have to depend on tools.
Useful tools mentioned:
🔗 Main Website: nokia.com
🔗 Friends of Figma Portugal: https://friends.figma.com/portugal/
🔗 Supernova https://www.supernova.io/
🔗 Storybook: storybook.js.org
🔗 Tokens Studio https://tokens.studio/
🔗 Figma Analytics
🌎 Official website: https://thedesignsystem.guide/interview-raquel-pereira
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1h 5min
December 05, 2024 Alexander Fandén - Managing a Design System Team
Interview with Alexander Fandén, Agoda's Design System Lead. He leads a 17-member team supporting over 7,000 employees. We explored managing a mature design system and keeping it effective.
Our discussion covered:
🔹 The need for internal education to promote the design system.
🔹 How seven years of work shaped Agoda's design system.
🔹 The importance of A/B testing for design changes.
🔹 Balancing standard components with the need for customization.
🔹 A special boot camp to onboard new designers.
🔹 The value of clear naming in design.
🔹 The role of intuition in design decisions.
🔹 What is active adoption?
And so much more…
Tools mentioned:
🔗 Airtable: Airtable.com
🔗 Gitbook
🌎 Official website: https://thedesignsystem.guide/intervi...
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58min
February 10, 2021 Lina Kiriakou (Owner, Design strategist, Dollphin)
Today I'm talking with Lina Kiriakou. Lina is a strategic and service design consultant. She is the owner of Dollphin, where she and her team provides strategic and service design solutions within various brand-building disciplines and business verticals. She is also a business Instructor of the Strategic Design Lab at the Panteion University of Athens. I love their approach, because it combines theory, work on real case studies, and connecting with experts. Lina is very experienced and it was so enjoyable to talk to her. She shared so many useful tips from her own career and I'm sure you will get inspired.

Website: https://www.thedollphin.com/
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1h 3min

FAQs about The Design System Guide:

How many episodes does The Design System Guide have?

The podcast currently has 4 episodes available.