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Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q\&A from the live audience.

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Design systems folks seem to be prone to burnout, arguments, and generally feeling hard done by within their organizations. What makes design systems folks so prone to being loaded with additional weight? We talk about why this happens, as well as some tactics to get around it.


Design Systems WTF #46 - What's with the emotional baggage with design systems?

Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q\&A from the live audience.

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Time to get spicy... One of the big promises of the hype of design systems was that it would reduce organizational and product complexity by providing efficient, replicable ways of doing things. Now that we've bedded in, its time to ask - how much do design systems actually reduce complexity? Do they just reorganize and make complexity more palatable?


Design Systems WTF #45 - Do design systems reduce complexity or just reorganize it?

Join us for another instalment of our deep dive webinar series, where we explore essential topics shaping the future of design systems with zeroheight.

This month, we’ll be looking at how to systematize your use of zeroheight.

We’ll cover how to create replicable, reliable documentation using features like custom templating, synced pages, internal tagging, embeds, design blocks, and footer blocks — and give a peek behind the curtain at how we approached building two of our newest AI-powered features.

*We’ll cover:*

*   What it means to create your documentation in a systematic way
*   How you can create custom templates and synced pages to ensure your documentation is consistent
*   Tips and tricks using the other blocks
*   Using AI to scale fast and maintain consistency — including how we approached building these new capabilities

Speakers:

Luke Murphy, Head of Advocacy

Lewis Smith-Tong, Senior Product Manager

Chace Stewart, Senior Product Engineer


zeroheight deep dive: Build once, scale faster: Systematizing your Design System docs

Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q\&A from the live audience.

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A bit of a deep topic this week – how important is consistency as a concept to be aiming for with design systems? Obviously, it's one of our design systems' selling points, but in a world where we're moving more and more towards browserless, how important is component consistency, or can we see a place where foundational consistency is all we need?


Design Systems WTF #44 - Should we care about consistency?

One of the top trends of this year's Design Systems Report is that we're maturing at a heartening pace. Design system teams are becoming more commonplace, we're happier with our implementations, and we're finding time to invest in the technologies that will help us succeed. Even the growing pains we’re having indicate design systems are moving into the next stage toward being a natural component of any modern product organization. So what does that future hold?

Luke, our resident design advocate, and Ben Callahan, founder of Sparkbox and host of The Question, will dust off their crystal balls and dive into the future of design systems. What does our future look like? What challenges do we still need to overcome? How can we come together as an industry to make sure our future is as promising as it can be?


Design Systems Report 2025 - The Road to Mass Adoption

Speakers

Luke Murphy

Lead Design advocate, zeroheight

Ben Callahan

Founder, Sparkbox

Replays

Design Systems WTF #46 - What's with the emotional baggage with design systems?

Design Systems WTF #45 - Do design systems reduce complexity or just reorganize it?