Running UI updates more efficiently at scale

What kind of change are you looking for through your design system? Here’s one way to frame it. It should serve you if you want to make your pitch to someone in a management position, someone with a stake in the productivity of digital product teams in particular.

Setting the scene

When you can no longer fit your digital product team(s) into one room or weekly sharing session, collaboration dynamics change:

Too many hand-overs and alignment sessions across and within teams before a release can be made? Lead times go up, employee happiness goes down, and time to feedback (seeing what…

Scaling a design system from a side project to a bigger initiative

How would you navigate the following situation?

Design system started as a personal passion project by a designer
Only one internal designer and plenty of development-heavy teams
Teams spread across several countries
Agile service development preferred

I was recently asked for advice for a situation like this. That short exchange…

Questions of Authority

How do you promote an agenda when you don’t feel like you have an official, acknowledged position to do so?

Recently, I’ve become interested in the experience of authority, what it tends to rely on… and whether my current perception of authority, whatever it might be, is something that should…

To create a stable Design System you need to embrace change

Creating a design system is not an once-off exercise. But what kind of changes should you prepare for?

What's a design system?Design systems provide guiding principles and re-usable building blocks for related products and product teams. They provide solutions to recurring design and development needs. They establish a shared, cross-disciplinary language. As such, they address both visible user interface elements as well as internal processes. A design…

Design with Data: Six Dilemmas You’re Likely to Face (Part 2)

In the previous post, the focus was on getting started with using data to inform your design work. In this post I’m stepping up the game: If you’re into setting up a more established, on-going practice for design relevant data, then this discussion is for you.

You might be wondering…

Design with Data: Six Dilemmas You’re Likely to Face (Part 1)

If you’re into infusing some data into your design work, this discussion is for you.

Perhaps you’re preparing for a launch, or a re-design of a service. Or perhaps you are in consulting or a freelancer, regularly starting on a project with a new customer. What would you need to…