Style Guide Podcast

Anna Debenham and Brad Frost•styleguides.io

A small batch podcast hosted by Anna Debenham and Brad Frost, dedicated to talking about style guides, pattern libraries and building effective interface systems.

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Episodes

Maya Benari

Maya gives us an overview of the work she’s doing with 18F on a set of standards that are improving the usability and accessibility of US government websites.

Nov 19, 2017•41 min

Inayaili de León Persson

Inayaili takes us through her work at Canonical in helping build and manage their open source design system, and how she encourages designers and developers to refer and contribute to it.

Sep 10, 2017•43 min

Jina Anne

Jina returns to the show to share her experience of working on Salesforce's legendary Lightning Design System.

Jul 30, 2017•49 min

Josh Clark

This week, we're joined by Josh Clark who works with clients on their design systems. He shares his approach to designing them, and how he makes sure they continue to be maintained.

Jul 16, 2017•45 min

Micah Godbolt

Micah Godbolt by Anna Debenham and Brad Frost

Jul 09, 2017•45 min

Val Head

In this episode, Val Head gives us an insight into the world of animation, and the ways she factors it into design systems.

Jul 02, 2017•45 min

Mina Markham

We’re joined by Mina Markham who worked on Pantsuit, the UI pattern library for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. She’s now a Senior Engineer at Slack.

Jun 26, 2017•42 min

Anna Debenham and Brad Frost

Anna and Brad talk about what’s changed since the first season of the Style Guides Podcast, and talk about what topics they’d like to cover this season.

Jun 19, 2017•40 min

Jeremy Keith

In our grand finale, Jeremy wraps up our small-batch podcast by talking about style guides from an agency’s perspective.

May 25, 2015•41 min

Nathan Curtis

Nathan joins us to talk about the style guides he’s worked on, and some of the things he’s gleaned from user research.

May 10, 2015•32 min

Rob Huddleston

Rob Huddleston gives us an overview of Capital One’s style guide and how it has evolved over the years.

Apr 24, 2015•44 min

Dave Rupert

Dave, and his soundboard, join us to talk about microsoft.com's redesign, modular CSS, and the quest for the holy grail of style guides.

Mar 19, 2015•44 min

Susan Robertson

Susan talks about the style guides she’s worked on, and the range of generators she’s researched.

Mar 11, 2015•31 min

Samantha Warren

Samantha introduces us to Style Tiles, how they came about, how to create your own, and when to use them.

Mar 04, 2015•36 min

Ian Feather

Ian talks to us about his work on Lonely Planet’s style guide, and the tool that makes it “living”.

Feb 26, 2015•33 min

Dan Mall

This week, Dan joins us to talk about Element Collages, and how he uses style guides to help build multi-platform, multi-lingual websites.

Feb 19, 2015•42 min

Dave Olsen

Dave Olsen talks about his work on Pattern Lab, and how style guides have influenced the web design process at West Virginia University.

Feb 13, 2015•38 min

Lincoln Mongillo

In our third episode, we talk with Lincoln Mongillo who helped build Starbucks’s style guide, and is now working on one at Simple.

Feb 04, 2015•33 min

Federico Holgado

Federico gives us some insight into the evolution of MailChimp’s UI style guide, and how it has helped improve the site.

Jan 28, 2015•36 min

Jina Bolton

Jina talks about building style guides back in 2004, and how they have changed over the years.

Jan 21, 2015•31 min

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