zeroheight deep dive: Before you hit publish: Drafts, diffs, and better governance
zeroheight
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Join us for another instalment of our Product Deep Dive series, exploring the tools and practices shaping the future of design systems.
Design system documentation is a critical source of truth for the people — and increasingly the AI agents — building your products. As AI-assisted development speeds up, keeping it current, trustworthy, and well governed matters more than ever.
Keeping half-finished work out of sight, bringing in reviewers, and explaining what changed often means duplicate or hidden pages and requests scattered across Slack or Teams. Those workarounds slow down publishing and make releases harder to coordinate. In this session, Luke Murphy, Robert Whitfield, and Tom Daly will show a clearer governance flow using our new Drafts, Reviewing, and Compare Changes features.
We’ll cover:
- How to prepare changes without affecting what viewers see
- How to request input, how reviewers are notified and the review flow
- How Compare Changes (diffs) shows what was added, edited, or removed
- The product, design, and technical decisions behind the workflow, plus what’s next
- Q&A
If you maintain design system documentation and want fewer workarounds, clearer reviews, and more confidence when you publish, this session is for you.
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.
Robert Whitfield
Senior Product Designer, zeroheight
Tom Daly
Product Engineer, zeroheight
zeroheight deep dive: Before you hit publish: Drafts, diffs, and better governance
54:57