Design Systems WTF #39 - Should designers know how to code?
zeroheight
28:58
Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF, 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.
The age old question – should designers know how to code? Or more specifically, how much should designer know when it comes to code? Considering it's the medium that we're designing for, it's still surprising how much this topic splits opinion. Luke and Michelle will dive into the pros and cons, and give some practical advice if you did want to delve into the witchcraft that engineers do.
Speakers
Luke Murphy
Principal Design Advocate, zeroheight
Luke is the Principal Design Advocate at zeroheight. They host the DesignOps Island Discs podcast, the WDC conference in Bristol, and help organizations worldwide with their design system via work with zeroheight and DesignOps Assembly. They’ve led design across enterprise and startups, with a passion for org design and creating community. When not enthusing about designops and design systems, they sing in a queer punk band and make zines.
Michelle Chin
Design systems consultant
Michelle Chin is a design systems and designops consultant, with experience in starting design systems from scratch and then scaling them across a 30+ product portfolio for an enterprise company. She’s also the co-host of the UX In Real Life podcast that examines what UX is really like at work and in the world around us. Michelle is also an environmental justice advocate and works to provide tree equity in Oakland, California.
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Design Systems WTF #39 - Should designers know how to code?
28:58