Design Systems WTF #57 - Is "driving adoption" just a polite way of saying "begging your colleagues to do their jobs properly"?
zeroheight
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Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michalle 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.
Adoption has been the perennial curse of design systems. Always a problem, never quite fixed, and loads of opinions about how to do it. But are we approaching it in the right way? Michelle and Luke talk about the problem with how adoption has been positioned, whether it's a tactical or cultural thing, and whether the goal should sit with design systems teams or the wider org.
Speakers
Luke Murphy
Principal Design Advocate, zeroheight
Luke is the Principal 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.
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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