Design Systems Report 2025 - Communication as the unlock for adoption
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A common theme throughout the Design Systems Report was communication. Whether it’s establishing strong buy-in with leaders, or educating the organization to drive adoption, it feels like we’re still relatively early on in our journey to figuring out how to speak about our design systems. At the same time, communication gets deprioritized when we’re resource-constrained, so how do we make time to advocate for our work?
Luke, our resident design advocate, and Andressa Lombardo, Principal Design Systems Designer at Teamwork, will dive into community and communication. What are some of the challenges that teams are facing today with building community and communicating about the design system? Are there best practices for starting your journey? Are there common pitfalls that folks fall prey to?
Speakers
Luke Murphy
Design advocate, zeroheight
Luke is the lead design advocate at zeroheight. They host the DesignOps Island Discs podcast, host the WDC conference in Bristol and help organizations worldwide with their design system via their work with zeroheight and DesignOps Assembly. They've worked as a design leader across enterprise and startups, and have a passion for good org design and creating community. When they're not enthusing about designops and design systems, they sing in a queer punk band and make zines.
Andressa Lombardo
Principal Design Systems Designer, Teamwork
With over 12 years in the digital realm, Andressa dedicates herself to empowering teams through Design Systems. She has worked on design systems at Teamwork and Allhuman, and teaches design system courses via Memorisely. She also co-runs the design system conference Into Design System.
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