• Back to School #6: Accessibility and Design Systems
    Aug 8 2024

    Is there really such a thing as an accessible design system component? How can the systems team ensure accessible products? Geri and Amy turn the colour contrast up to 11:1 in their final podcast on accessibility.

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    1 hr
  • Back to School #5: Design System Governance
    Jun 21 2024

    Does a centralized team provide the most effective design system governance model? Can a single overlord provide cohesion or just become a bottleneck? And can a federated model ever really work? Amy and Geri join the debate team to argue the pros and cons of design system governance.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Back to School #4: Naming in Design Systems
    Jun 12 2024

    There is already a name for most things on the web. So why do design systems put so much time and effort into naming things? Why is deciding on the name of a component more challenging than naming your child? Geri and Amy give names a roll call.

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    59 mins
  • Back to School #3: Design Tokens
    May 2 2024

    Amy Hupe and Geri Reid are back in the class to teach you all about design tokens. They break it down, so you leave after acing the pop quiz. There’s a lot of chatter about design tokens. Why do you need tokens? And how do you architect them when there’s so much conflicting advice?

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Back to School #2: Figma UI Kits
    Mar 27 2024

    Recess is over! Amy Hupe and Geri Reid are back in the classroom with the next episode of Back to School. This time, they talked about all of Figma UI kits.

    Are you a real design system without a Figma UI kit? Does it need to be a pixel-perfect copy of your code? What’s the source of truth? More pressingly, can a Figma library BE your design system?

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    58 mins
  • Back to School #1: AI and documentation
    Mar 5 2024

    We’ve teamed up with design systems experts Amy Hupe and Geri Reid to bring you Back to School!

    In the first episode they talked all about AI and documentation.

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    50 mins