Design Systems WTF #47 - What will happen in design systems in 2026?
zeroheight
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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.
It's time to peer into the crystal ball and predict what's coming up for design systems this year and further out. Will AI take all our jobs? Are design systems becoming a thing of the past? Will we finally kill all creativity? Or are we still plodding along to general adoption?
Speakers
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.
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.
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