292: Building Design Systems (feat. Linzi Berry)

This week, we welcome to the show Linzi Berry, a manager on Lyft's design system. Linzi enlightens us on how to implement, maintain, enforce, evangelize, and roll out a design system, and we discuss her super informative design blog, Tap to Dismiss. In Follow-up, we debate some Episode 300 suggestions, revisit the Figma UI refresh, and shout out a quality-of-life improvement in Sketch 54. And as always, we (all three of us!) share some cool things, including a historic photo, a video to help understand that photo, and an update on the Bobiverse.

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Follow-up:

Jonathan Fisher sent us some great ideas for Episode 300, including having Bryn back on the show
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Jason Csizmadi wishes we had talked more about the Figma UI Refresh
Sketch 54 has some nice quality-of-life improvements
Chris Doner wants some details about tactical usage of a design system

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Interview:

Linzi Berry (site) is a design manager on the Lyft Design System
She worked at Odopod on stuff for SpaceX, Tesla, Fitbit, and Audemars Piguet
Watch brands pop up in rap songs a lot thanks to Jay-Z and Beyoncé
WalkSF is "your advocate for safe streets for all"
Better Market Street is a collaboration "initiating a number of improvements to test ways to improve Market Street"
Michael Wang, formerly at Lyft, is a designer at Northstar
Peak2Peak is "the ultimate urban walking adventure"
Walk to Work Day is SF's "annual celebration of our walking city – and of everyone who walks"
Brown Bag Meetings are " informal meetings that occur in the workplace generally around lunchtime"
Colorbox is a tool created by Kevyn Arnott
Tap to Dismiss is Linzi's Medium blog that "sweats the details so you don't have to"
Divider Lines are deceptively hard
Sam Soffes coined the term "Choice Chip Bag"
Linda Dong is a design manager at Lyft, too

One Cool Thing:

Linzi shared the first photo ever taken of a black hole
Marshall shared "How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole", a video by Veratasium
Brian shared For We Are Many, Book 2 of the Bobiverse Trilogy by Dennis E. Taylor

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