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A podcast about building successful software. We provide actionable advice around product validation, execution, and promotion.
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Learn how to implement effective promotion of components in a design system, and best practices for design and development team communication.
Raise your hand if you have a working design system in Figma, but your hand-offs are fumbled or communication between your teams is sometimes hazy?
Don't worry, we can help!
High performing product teams develop a design system process to build effective communication and keep all teams aware of what items are being added to the system.
In this discussion, Billy Sweetman, Head of Design at Headway will share tips to establishing effective promotion of components in a design system, as well as best practices to keep your designers and developers working together seamlessly.
00:00 - Intro
02:04 - Overview
02:58 - What is a Design System?
04:18 - Design System Build Process
04:34 - Design System Team Structure
05:50 - The Process
07:55 - Meeting Cadence
09:15 - Promoting Items
10:42 - Nomination
12:34 - Decision Point
14:12 - Documentation
15:43 - Sunsetting Items
17:54 - Deadline
19:43 - Planning and Rollout
20:49 - Slack Updates
21:54 - Design Tool
23:40 - Newsletter
26:31 - Questions
42:50 - From Idea to Venture Launch - Prototypes and Feedback Loops
43:53 - Open Office Hours - Ask Us Anything
Billy shared a more in depth look into our design system project management process in a new blog post. He breaks down the the project board setup we use to communicate and track updates.
Design System Updates and Communication - Project Boards
Creating Scalable Design Systems
Managing Design Systems and Documentation
Multi-Tiered UI Kits for Design Systems
Our Favorite Figma Plugins for Better Design Workflows
Instance Finder - Figma Plugin
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