Michelle Chin
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Managing Design System Work
We get a lot of questions about best practices for managing design system work, especially if you’re running a little scrappy or don’t have a centralized team. While it’s similar to managing design...
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Story pointing design work for your design system
When I propose story pointing design work as a solution, I always get asked, “Can you really story point design work? That seems difficult.” The answer is, “Yes, and it’s not as difficult as you th...
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Creating an accessible component - design and development collaboration
Figuring out how to make an accessible component in your design system isn’t always straightforward. There’s more to it than creating a design and coding it. Regarding accessibility, teams need to ...
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Managing a scrappy, informal, or federated design system team
Design systems have to start somewhere, and typically it’s with a scrappy team, limited resources, or, if you’re lucky, people representing all your org’s different products. While this might seem ...
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How Design Program Managers can help design systems
If you are building a design system without a dedicated team, you know it’s common to experience pain points. It might feel unorganized or challenging to get things done because people are only par...
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Starting, restarting, or refreshing your design system without burning out
It’s a new year, a new quarter, or whenever you’re reading this, you’re at a point where your team is officially going to start, restart, or refresh your design system. While exciting, the challeng...
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Do you need a content designer? Yes, you do.
We’ve noticed a trend that several design system teams now include content designers (In our forthcoming How We Document report, a third of all design system teams have at least one content person....
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Leveraging the releases feature to version your design system
Our releases feature is a powerful tool for any maturing or scaling design system. We’ll go into two ways you can leverage releases. Teams commonly use releases to manage a production version (one ...
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All about icons: findability, creating, documenting
People frequently ask us, “How should we organize our icons?” As with most things in design–it depends! But we’ll cover what you should think of when organizing your icons and the information you s...
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Increasing design system adoption
Adoption is a common hurdle for design system teams and maintainers. However, encouraging adoption can be easier than you think with little effort. What’s your adoption goal? Adoption can mean di...
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