Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Stephen Gates (currently at InVision; formerly at Citi and Starwood) and Chris discuss advice for leaders needing to drive adoption and success of their design systems, how to assess and foster trust between design system creators and consumers, treating design systems as infrastructure, and the Amazing Design People List to help designers find work during COVID-19. Guest: Stephen Gates is Head Design Evangelist at InVision, host of The Crazy One podcast ...
Jun 23, 2020•35 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Mina Markham (currently at Slack, formerly at Hillary For America and IBM) and Chris discuss getting executive buy-in, how to create space to continue advancing your design system, going beyond a shared language by building a shared culture, the story behind the Pantsuit Design System, and Beyoncé, of course. Guest: Mina Markham is Staff Engineer at Slack, design systems advocate, and international speaker. You can find Mina at mina.codes , on Twitter as ...
Jun 11, 2020•33 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Chris and Micah discuss creating a singular design system that scales to support a massive app ecosystem, using tokens to align design across disparate products, and transitioning from individual teams working on many products to one company working on a library of products. Guest: Micah Godbolt is a design systems advocate, speaker, trainer, and writer. Micah is a software engineer for Fluent UI at Microsoft and author of Frontend Architecture for Design...
May 20, 2020•31 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Chris and Ethan discuss the parallels between design systems and responsive web design in terms of the impact on how teams design/develop digital products, creating a shared language and research as a means to build successful design systems, and where design systems are headed in the years to come. Guest: Ethan Marcotte is an independent web designer, writer, and speaker, and the fellow who started that “ responsive web design ” thing. You can find Ethan...
May 11, 2020•34 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Chris talks with Brad Frost and Evan Lovely about why code is the real source of truth, how to bring designers and developers together around the code, and the opportunity design systems provide for designers to focus on creative contribution rather than producing more comps. Guests: Brad Frost is a web designer, speaker, writer, consultant, and musician in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. Author of Atomic Design . You can find Brad on Twitter and LinkedIn . Eva...
Apr 20, 2020•45 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Chris and Jeremy Keith discuss imbuing teams with a shared sense of ownership of their design system, creating design systems able to address unforeseen scenarios, design ops as an essential part of an effective design system, and more. Guest: Jeremy Keith is an Irish web developer working with @Clearleft , playing music with @SalterCane , creator of @Huffduffer . You can find Jeremy on Twitter and LinkedIn . Host: Chris Strahl is co-founder and CEO of Kn...
Apr 02, 2020•47 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Chris and Charles Hall talk about the impact of accessibility, how to build more accessible products, and the role design systems play in creating accessible outcomes. Guest: Charles Hall is a Senior UX Architect at MRM and an Invited Expert of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. You can find Charles on Twitter and LinkedIn . Host: Chris Strahl is co-founder and CEO of Knapsack, DnD DM, and occasional river guide. You can find Chris on Twitter...
Mar 25, 2020•37 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Chris talks with Salem about what a front-end architect actually does, they breakdown of web components (what they are and who uses them), cover the tools Pega systems use and how their team works, and much more. Download the episode transcript: http://files.basalt.io.s3.amazonaws.com/podcast_transcripts/008-Design-Systems-Podcast-Transcript.pdf Salem Ghoweri Lead Front-End Architect for PegaSystem's Bold Design System Salem is the lead front-end architec...
Mar 05, 2020•35 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Chris talks to the President and CEO of the Technology Association of Oregon (TAO), Skip Newberry. While Skip may not work in the DS community day-to-day, he has a unique view on design and development from working with so many Oregon tech companies. The two talk about focusing on the use of design when helping to reach communities outside of the standard spectrum. Additionally, they discuss the idea of how ubiquity matters, to reach the most people, leve...
Feb 21, 2020•31 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Chris chats with Marco Suárez about his design experiences in the early days, before the term 'design systems' was official. The two walk through how to drive adoption of a design system within an organization, using branding and design in a physical space as well as digital, Marco's specific design experience and working with companies like MailChimp and Etsy on design systems, and more. Download the episode transcript: https://files.basalt.io.s3.amazona...
Feb 06, 2020•38 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Chris talks with Tatiana Mac about ensuring design systems, specifically components, are accessible. The two discuss accessibility testing tools, being sure to be inclusive in forms, considering inclusion and the "why" when asking for certain data, and more inclusion topics. Download the episode transcript: https://files.basalt.io.s3.amazonaws.com/podcast_transcripts/005-Design-Systems-Podcast-Transcript.pdf Tatiana Mac Independent American designer Tatia...
Jan 17, 2020•33 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Dan Mall calls in from the East coast to chat with Chris about design systems and their role in enterprise organizations. How does this affect the teams that work on them? The guys also discuss what digital products actually are in relation to design systems. How to create a "one ring to rule them all" type of system and does that even exits? They continue to dive into agile, designers' roles, how teams are finding they're wasting time, and much more. Dan...
Jan 02, 2020•38 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Chris and Emily Campbell discuss the convergence of design and code, and what that actually looks like. They walk through what a designer role looks like in a modern digital product team and Emily explains her idea that design and development are the same. They just have different approaches to the same process or medium. Other topics the duo touch on include questioning if designers should learn to code, intent around design and development, the importan...
Dec 18, 2019•38 min
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. In the pilot episode of the Design Systems Podcast, host Chris Strahl talks with Evan Lovely about design systems as a whole. What are they? Who are they meant for? What are the benefits? And more. Evan Lovely CTO and Co-Founder, Basalt and Knapsack Evan is the CTO of Basalt. His pragmatism and craftsmanship are contagious within project teams. He believes that encouraging creativity, tinkering, and close collaboration leads to the most elegant solutions....
Dec 09, 2019•25 min
