Managing a Design System for Enterprise with Colin Miller

Tushar Roy
VMware Design
Published in
1 min readApr 13, 2023

Season 1, Episode 3 of the Enterprise Design Podcast, brought to you by VMware Design

Colin Miller (he/his) is the manager of the design team for VMware’s Design System — Clarity. He has developed several design systems in his career, using a wealth of expertise from numerous traditional design and technical disciplines. Miller’s experience is diverse, ranging from being a Creative Director for 3D projection mapping to a Visual Effects Supervisor for feature films. He has also worked on print and broadcast advertising, as well as music videos. For the last decade, Miller has focused on interface design. He has created apps for The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers, on-demand video systems, and enterprise.

In Episode 3 of the Enterprise Design Podcast, Miller discusses the evolution and learnings of building a design system for enterprise products. We learn how:

  1. A design system acts like Lego blocks that give you infinite ways to improve the maturity of a design organization.
  2. A design system brings people together!
  3. Adoption of a design system is sometimes just the beginning!

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Opinions shared here are the speaker’s own and not the views of VMware as a company.

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