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Gabe Goldstein
Gabe Goldstein | Jul 24, 2024

The Great Reorganization

Gabe Goldstein, a Sr. Visual Systems Designer working on the CarMax design system, explains the evolving needs of a mature design system and when and how to create something new.

Nezar Mansour
Nezar Mansour | Jan 17, 2024

Assembling Your Design System Tech Stack

Nezar Mansour, Content Team Lead for Supernova, an end-to-end design system management platform, discusses key considerations and tools to use for design systems.

Beau Ulrey
Beau Ulrey | Oct 31, 2023

A Design System That Holds Your Hand

Beau Ulrey, Sr. Design System Manager at U.S. Bank, discusses how to enhance common product designer scenarios with the design system.

Elena Searcy
Elena Searcy | Oct 30, 2022

Brand Expression In Design Systems: Icons & Illustrations

Elena Searcy, the Director of Product Design at PlayVS and previously the Sr. Design Manager on the Twitch Design System writes about how to infuse a design system with brand energy.

Liv Tytherleigh
Liv Tytherleigh | Aug 19, 2022

Scaling A System

Liv Tytherleigh, a Senior Product Designer at Meta talks about expanding a design system to support a range of different use cases.

Felix Ng
Felix Ng | Feb 02, 2022

Creating Components For Mature Design Systems

Felix Ng, a Product Designer at Meta, explains how they approach building components for an enterprise-level design system.

Chris LaChance
Chris LaChance | Aug 11, 2021

Accessible Design Systems: Look Good While Doing Good

Chris LaChance, the Design Ops Lead at Pegasystems talks about how to design and build accessible components for everyone.

Rose Marantz
Rose Marantz | May 27, 2021

Making A Break For It

Rose Marantz, a UX Engineer working on Spotify's Encore Design System, talks about scaling and documenting system-wide changes.

Josh Cusick
Josh Cusick | Apr 28, 2021

How To Start On Design Systems

Josh Cusick, a Product Designer working on the Fluent Design System at Microsoft tells his story of how he got into design systems.

Josh Mateo
Josh Mateo | Apr 26, 2021

Blending Brand And Product

Josh Mateo, a Lead Designer on Netflix's Hawkins Design System, discusses how a unified design system can unite product and brand experiences.

Yasmine Evjen
Yasmine Evjen | Feb 03, 2021

Year In The Life Of A Material Design Advocate

Yasmine Evjen, Advocacy Lead for Google's Material Design System, breaks down the ins and outs of advocating and educating teams on Material Design.

Ben Lister
Ben Lister | Nov 16, 2020

Small Steps, Big Changes

Ben Lister, a Senior Product Designer working on Gusto's Design System, breaks down evolving with a design system that matures, aligning with brand changes, and working with engineers and Figma's API.

Jeremy Dizon
Jeremy Dizon | Nov 03, 2020

Design To Engineering Handoff

Jeremy Dizon, a Product Designer working on Lyft's Design System (Lyft Product Language), discusses the nuances that go into creating design and code parody and building engineer partnerships.

Ginny Wood
Ginny Wood | Oct 05, 2020

Venturing Past The System

Ginny Wood, a Product Designer working on Zendesk's Garden Design System discusses when to rely on the Design System and when to venture outside of it to make decisions.

Hayley Hughes
Hayley Hughes | Sep 21, 2020

Bringing Context To Design Systems

Hayley Hughes, UX Manager working on the Polaris Design System at Shopify discusses the importance of context in working on design systems.

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