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In defence of not doing the research first
Analysis paralysis is a legitimate danger. We need to trust our own design expertise and experience more. Until we create, we can't really learn.
Nov 25, 2024
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Robin Cannon
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In defence of not doing the research first
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If you have a component request process, you're doing it wrong
The moment you add something along the lines of "request", you're creating a bottleneck. We should be sharing and then refining, not refining before we…
Nov 18, 2024
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Robin Cannon
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August 2022
Getting your company to pay for a design system using an efficiency-focused pitch
We don't even need to address design quality to make an effective argument for the benefits of a design system. The efficiency pitch is powerful even by…
Aug 16, 2022
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July 2022
The hub and spoke design system model
No design system team can scale enough to support an enterprise scale business by itself. IBM Carbon's hub and spoke model has been success in combining…
Jul 29, 2022
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Why don't we talk more about Lego?
We need to come up with better ways of defining and describing design systems to the layperson. Lego seems like an obvious and understandable analogy…
Jul 19, 2022
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Design system adoption numbers...just a vanity metric?
Unless you can draw conclusions about why people are using your design system, and the impact it's having, raw adoption numbers could mean anything.
Jul 5, 2022
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Robin Cannon
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June 2022
The 3 types of design system deviation
Virgil Abloh said that a 3% change to an object could be a new design. Desirable disruption in fashion, less so for your design system's success. Beware…
Jun 24, 2022
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Don't become the design systems police
Create positive perceptions of the design system and its team by showing up as facilitators, not by being the source of extra "compliance" work
Jun 20, 2022
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Robin Cannon
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Maybe we don't want too many design system team veterans
Rotating people on and off a design system team can maintain enthusiasm, engagement, and connection between the design system and the rest of the…
Jun 16, 2022
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