DesignOps Island Discs
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -The podcast from zeroheight, where we talk to the best folks in DesignOps from around the world to help you build the best darn DesignOps practice you possibly can. Hosted by Luke Murphy, design advocate at zeroheight, each episode focuses on a specific part of the DesignOps pie, gaining insight from both established DesignOps practitioners, as well as up and coming DesignOps voices.
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Episodes
Sheena Lydon - Being a DPM
February 07, 2023 15:27 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBDesignOps Island Discs is a live-recorded, interactive podcast, looking at what's coming up in the world of designops and design systems. For season three, we're focussing on the roles that make up designops and design systems, from content designers to leads to engineers to accessibility specialists to DPMs. For episode 4, we welcome Sheena Lydon, DPM on Design Systems at Wise. We're going to talk to Sheena about being a DPM... what the essential skills for a DPM are, why they're important...
Heydon Pickering - Being a Design Systems Engineer
December 09, 2022 16:54 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBDesignOps Island Discs is a live-recorded, interactive podcast, looking at what's coming up in the world of designops and design systems. For season three, we're focussing on the roles that make up designops and design systems, from content designers to leads to engineers to accessibility specialists to DPMs. For episode 4, we welcome Heydon Pickering, design and engineering consultant, who has worked with Springer Nature, The Paciello Group, BBC, Smashing Mag, and Bulb. We're going to tal...
Amy Hupe - Being a Content Specialist on Design Systems
November 14, 2022 12:18 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBDesignOps Island Discs is a live-recorded, interactive podcast, looking at what's coming up in the world of designops and design systems. For season three, we're focussing on the roles that make up designops and design systems, from content designers to leads to engineers to accessibility specialists to DPMs. For episode three, we welcome (back) Amy Hupe! Amy is a content specialist and design system consultant, having worked on design systems from Springer Nature, to BT, to Babylon Health...
Arielle Benedek - Being a Product Manager on Design Systems
October 19, 2022 12:49 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBDesignOps Island Discs is a live-recorded, interactive podcast, looking at what's coming up in the world of designops and design systems. For season three, we're focussing on the roles that make up designops and design systems, from content designers to leads to engineers to accessibility specialists to DPMs. For episode two, we welcome Arielle Benedek, one of the Product Managers on Encore, Spotify's design system, on what a product manager on a design system actually does, what the biggest...
Geri Reid - Being a Lead Designer on Design Systems
September 26, 2022 13:33 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBDesignOps Island Discs is a live-recorded, interactive podcast, looking at what's coming up in the world of designops and design systems. For season three, we're focussing on the roles that make up designops and design systems, from content designers to leads to engineers to accessibility specialists to DPMs. For our first episode, we welcome Geri Reid, lead designer on Newskit, the News UK design system. We'll talk about what a lead designer does in the context of design systems, the challe...
Patrizia Bertini - Change Management in DesignOps
December 13, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBPatrizia Bertini, Associate Director of DesignOps at Babylon talks to us about how change management is an essential part of any org change, the benefits of going slow to go fast, how to win over the team with changes in their processes and tooling and why DesignOps at the C suite level. Patrizia on Twitter Pat-bertini.medium.com Lewin's Model of Change Parov Stelar Discography DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump...
Dan Mall - How Designers can be Better Partners
November 29, 2021 05:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBDan Mall, Creative director and advisor, founder and director of both SuperFriendly and Arcade and design systems extraordinaire talks to us about the collaboration between designers and engineers to hot potatoing between design and development and the shift that is needed in design to better focus on people. DanMall.me Dan on Twitter SuperFriendly Arcade Stand By Me, Ben E. King The Count of Monte Cristo , Alexandre Dumas DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the d...
Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent - Standardizing Design Tokens
November 22, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBKaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, design and developer advocate and co-chair of the design tokens W3C community group, talks to us about the history of design tokens, the standardization of design tokens and the future of DesignOps. Kaelig.fr Kaelig on Twitter Design Tokens W3C Community Group Pink Floyd, The Wall Tough Guides: How to Stay Alive on A Desert Island DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point an...
Brad Frost - The Developer Experience in Design Systems
November 15, 2021 07:20 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBBrad Frost, Web Designer, Speaker, Consultant, Writer, Podcast Host and 'Grangfather' of Design Systems and Atomic Design , talks to us about the developer experience in design systems, the tools and processes out there to make design systems easier and what hopefully the future of design systems looks like. Bradfrost.com Brad on Twitter Pattern Lab Atomic Design Outkast, Stankonia The Element, Sir Ken Robinson DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design syste...
Tim Gilligan - The role of a Chief of Staff
November 08, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBTim Gilligan, a Chief of Staff at Capital One, talks to us about their journey into their current role, what benefits a Chief of Staff can bring to an org, and what they are excited about the future of DesignOps. Tim Gilligan Tim on Twitter Hundred Days, The Bengsons A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next tim...
Jerome de Lafargue - The Importance of Design at an Early Stage
November 01, 2021 05:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBJerome de Lafarge, co-founder and CEO at zeroheight talks to us about how to survive in the startup world, where zeroheight came from and where DesignOps is likely headed. zeroheight.com Jerome on Twitter The National The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next time, bon voyage...
Laura Kennedy - The deprioritisation of design systems
October 25, 2021 04:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBLaura Kennedy, lead designer on design systems at GoodRx, talks to us about the deprioritisation of a design system, what signs to look for, what to do if it does happen and what lessons were learned for future opportunities. laura-kennedy.net Laura on Twitter Bear Grylls Survival Podcast The Art Institute of Chicago DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. ...
Rogie King - The Power of Community
October 18, 2021 04:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBRogie King, designer advocate at Figma, plugin author and prolific tweeter, talks to us about the power of community and the influence on the design process improvements. rog.ie Rogie's Figma Profile Rogie on twitter Figma Plugins: Table Creator, Breakpoints, SkewDat, Image Tracer. FigJam Black Tiger Sex Machine, Futuristic Thriller Salem's Lot, Stephen King DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any poin...
Chase McCoy - The Future of Design System Documentation
October 11, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBChase McCoy, the driving force behind Seeds at Sprout Social, now a product designer at Stripe, talks to us about documentation as knowledge graphs and the future of design systems. chasem.co Chase on Twitter Design systems as knowledge graphs Seeds - Sprout Social Frank Ocean, Blonde Broad Band, Claire L. Evans DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Un...
Trailer: DesignOps Island Discs Season Two
September 27, 2021 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MBWe're back with season two, and this season we're talking to even more DesignOps and design systems folks about the nitty gritty of what good DesignOps is. From the future of design system documentation to design tokens to design pairing, season two is going to tool you up and get you shipshape. Season Two Episode One will be released at 05:00 GMT on Monday October 11, 2021, with subsequent episodes being released weekly on Mondays, right through to the end of the year. DesignOps Island D...
Henrique Gusso - Building a Design Systems Team
June 14, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBHenrique Gusso, principal designer on Design Systems at Wise, talks to us about what goes into building an effective Design Systems team, from team make-up to product management to contribution models. Gusso on Twitter Engineering Lead job at Wise Hercules - Various Artists @horse_ebooks on Twitter DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next time, bon ...
Amy Hupe - Building a contribution model for your Design System
June 07, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBAmy Hupe, content designer and design systems expert, who has been the driving force behind Design Systems at BT, Babylon Health and gov.uk, talks to us about what goes into building a successful contribution model for your design system. Amyhupe.co.uk Amy on Twitter Gov.uk design system Content by Design conference Sarah Nuefeld - Where the Light Comes In DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and ...
Peter Merholz - Designing Your Org
May 31, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBPeter Merholz, co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs, consultant, conference speaker, podcaster and all-round great human being, talks to us about how his and Kristin's book was born, what's changed in the last five years, some red flags that your org isn't working and how the concept of org design fits within DesignOps. petermerholz.com Org Design for Design Orgs Peter on Twitter Design at Scale conference Talking Heads - Remain in Light Moby Dick by Herman Melville DesignOps Isla...
Meredith Black - Hiring good DesignOps folks
May 24, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBMeredith Black, DesignOps consultant, co-founder of DesignOps Assembly and co-author of The DesignOps Handbook, and who has built and led DesignOps teams at Pinterest, Facebook and IDEO amongst others, talks to us about her journey to DesignOps, where to start when building your DesignOps function and what makes a good DesignOps hire. meredithblackbrant.com DesignOps Assembly DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in...
Harjot Bal - Running a DesignOps Audit
May 17, 2021 04:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBHarjot Bal, Senior Manager of DesignOps and Design Systems at Appnovation in Toronto, talks to us about his reasons for focussing his UX skills internally, his process for running a DesignOps audit, what he found out of running this at a global agency and how tooling is one of the most important things to look at for the future. Harjot on LinkedIn Harjot.io Appnovation CX North America Robert Greene - The Laws of Human Nature DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the ...
Dave Malouf - Defining DesignOps
May 10, 2021 04:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBDave Malouf, designer, author, educator and design leader, talks to us about his path to DesignOps, how we should be defining what DesignOps is and the dangers of automation around how "every tool is a weapon if you hold it right". Dave's website Dave on Twitter Dave's writings on Medium U2 - Live From Paris DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next ...
Trailer: DesignOps Island Discs
May 04, 2021 11:37 - 2 minutes - 2.7 MBIntroducing DesignOps Island Discs, the new podcast from zeroheight, where we talk to the best folks in DesignOps from around the world to find out what it takes to have a successful DesignOps function in your org. Season one guests include the likes of Dave Malouf, Meredith Black, Harjot Bal and more. Episode One will be released at 05:00 BST on Monday May 10, 2021, with subsequent episodes being released weekly on Mondays. DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the desi...