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Design System Office Hours

Davy Fung + PJ Onoriofficehours.systems
Davy and PJ, design system practitioners talk about design-led product ownership, scaling and adoption, community and engagement, design system team models, and much more.
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Episodes

Ep 22: Let's Get Started, Year 0-1

Originally episode 21, if not for our last special episode on layoffs, we talk about how to get a design system up and running, and things we looked to achieve in years 0-1. This ep is the first in a series of 3 episodes about getting started in design systems. Episode Transcripts

Nov 30, 202234 minSeason 1Ep. 22

Ep 21: ROI During Layoffs

During this rough week at Meta and Twitter, Davy and PJ discuss how to continuously prove ROI for yourself and your team in the light of operating on leaner teams. Episode Transcripts

Nov 10, 202233 minEp. 21

Ep 20: Education and Onboarding

Happy Halloween and 20th episode to us! Davy and PJ talk about how their teams support educating designers and the continuous task of training product designers, whether they are new to the org, or just new to the design system. Episode Transcripts

Oct 31, 202237 minEp. 20

Ep 19: Team Models

Davy and PJ talk about different design system team make ups at Disney Streaming, Meta, and Pinterest. How federated vs centralized have worked for them; and how big does your team need to be? Episode Transcripts

Oct 21, 202233 minEp. 19

Ep 18: Contributions

Davy and PJ talk about how they're thinking about contribution models on their teams and mechanisms to get better XFN collaboration between design and engineering. Episode Transcripts

Oct 05, 202233 minSeason 1Ep. 18

Ep 17.5: Long Live Figma (BONUS)

Davy and PJ react to the earth-shattering news that Adobe is “teaming up" with Figma, and what that may or may not mean to us. Episode Transcripts

Sep 19, 202235 minEp. 17

Ep 17: Copy Cats and Mimicry

Davy and PJ discuss issues with copy cat design patterns and frameworks. What might work for your company may not work for the next. Design systems is not one size fits all, but fits most. Episode Transcripts

Sep 15, 202233 minEp. 17

Ep 16: Automation

Davy talks with PJ about various ways of automating design system and design ops tasks to help our day-to-day lives as worker-bees easier. Episode Transcripts

Aug 31, 202235 min

Ep 15: Support

Davy and PJ talk about their methods of design systems support, ranging from Davy's fave, Office Hours, to async support on Slack. A good episode candidate to do design systems bingo/drinking game. Episode Transcripts

Aug 18, 202228 min

Ep 14: File Hygiene

PJ grills Davy about his super organized and sometimes outrageous file hygiene mandates he lead while working at Disney Streaming. How can you use organization and naming to drive better alignment across design and engineering partners? Episode Transcripts

Aug 06, 202230 min

Ep 13: Feedback

Davy and PJ talk about how we've incorporated design and engineering user feedback on our design system work. Leaning into surveys, PJ has had great success half-over-half by employing a new product framework.. listening. Episode Transcripts

Jul 18, 202234 min

Ep 12: Speaking

Davy talks about speaking at his first design conference last month, UXDX. We talk about how to find your voice and how to get started for those whom want to engage more with the product design community. Episode Transcripts

Jun 29, 202232 minEp. 12

Ep 11: Adoption

We took a long Memorial Day vacay and back to talk about adoption methods and get how to get designers excited to use your design system. Chatter about how different strategies apply for differing scale of teams. Episode Transcripts

Jun 07, 202230 minEp. 11

Ep 10: Hindsight, What We Wish We've Known...

Happy 10th episode birthday! We wanted to take a look at and see, knowing what we've known about working on design systems at our companies, what we wish we would have known had we started today. Episode Transcripts

May 23, 202227 minEp. 10

Ep 9: ROI

We're almost at episode 10, and we're here to talk about ROI, driving impact. It has to do with learning what leadership's LOVE LANGUAGE is. Episode Transcripts

May 13, 202233 minEp. 9

Ep 8: Multi-brand Design Systems

We talk about a fun topic of scale, how to support multiple brands under 1 design system. Davy talks a bit about considerations when designing across Disney+ and Star+ and the usage of theming to design for one system in whole. Episode Transcripts

Apr 27, 202233 minEp. 8

Ep 7: JIRA MORMONT

We've polled our listeners and heard that JIRA was their favorite design tool, over Figma. So we decided to talk about how we've utilized JIRA as Design System product owners and how it's impacted the way we plan our work. Episode Transcriptions

Apr 14, 202235 minEp. 7

Ep 6: Mandates

Mandates, governance, we discuss how our orgs approach the mandates for usage of the Design Systems. Episode Transcripts

Mar 29, 202228 minEp. 6

Ep 5: Figma is NOT a Design System

Is your work in Figma a Design System? We chat about how design artifacts and tools are just one portion of what a system represents. Episode Transcripts

Mar 16, 202233 minEp. 5

Ep 4: Documentation

One of the favorite talking points of all Design System folx, Documentation. What does documentation mean to you? Episode Transcripts

Mar 01, 202233 minEp. 4

Ep 3: Releases and Versioning

An meta-pilot on releasing the podcast on a Wednesday vs a Friday. We talk about how we manage Design System releases as well as the differences between versioning and version control. Episode Transcripts

Feb 16, 202233 minEp. 3

Ep 2: Design Technologists

Welcome to our second episode! We have Ayesha Mazrana (@AyeshaKMaz) a Design Technologist at Pinterest, talking about her role, how she works with design and engineering, and how she's found success working on a Design Systems team with PJ. Episode Transcripts

Feb 03, 202231 minEp. 2

Ep 1: Design Management for Design Systems

Welcome to our first episode. Davy and PJ talk about who they are, and dive into their roles as Design Managers, managing Design Systems for 2 different organizations. Episode Transcripts

Jan 21, 202235 minEp. 1
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