The 1-hour Design Principles Workshop

Matthew Ström
Sep 5, 2018 · 8 min read

Design principles are a valuable tool for any team that works together towards a shared outcome. Written well, design principles can create alignment, speed up decision-making, and increase the quality of the team’s output.

Lately, I’ve worked with two of my teams to write design principles. Turns out writing down design principles is easy¹; agreeing on principles as a team is much harder. In earlier writing, I missed an important quality of good design principles:

Good design principles are written as a team.

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Matthew Ström

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Design Lead at Bitly. https://matthewstrom.com

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