What should go into a design system?

Faster Horses | A podcast about UI design, user experience, UX design, product and technology

09/06/22 • 72 min

Design systems have become a key part of user experience, design and development, but what should it consist of?
We have a good old poke around, question atomic design, figure out audiences and how to effectively communicate what the core concept of design systems are, why we use them and is Brad Frost right.

Should print and digital guidelines fit into a single system?

We chuck in the patterns and chuck out the chintz, with topical tangents, wrapped in the UX of a squidgy scotch egg.

All this and more are answered in this episode of Faster Horses.

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Paul Wilshaw

Nick Tomlinson

Mark Sutcliffe

Anthony Jones

Chris Sutcliffe

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🐎 80% comedy, 20% UX, 0% filler

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09/06/22 • 72 min

Faster Horses | A podcast about UI design, user experience, UX design, product and technology - What should go into a design system?

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Nick00:00:00.050

Fix that bit in post. No, so I was saying yeah, there was what's his name? Martin Zuckerberg was on Rogan of all people, like last week and they were talking at great, a great length about VR and stuff. And.

Nick00:00:14.119

Apparently the reason why so many people get sick of it is because there's like a tiny lag between turning your head and like the amount that the headset turns. And it's like almost imperceptible, b

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