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Episode 025 - Bridging Development and Design with Miriam Suzanne and Sondra Eby Eisenstat

The Object-Oriented UX Podcast

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The Importance of Intentionality in Shape Shifters

A shape shifter is an object that looks different in different places, while a mass object are two different objects that look the same. Miriam: I think those terms give a good way of talking about those problems sort of from both ends like it's a problem on either end if everything is all too similar or all too different. The core problem to figure out is how much different do things need to be and where do we actually want to enforce consistency? A lot of design systems don't have enough specificity for what they're supposed to represent so you'll see stuff such as here's our homepage tile, or here's our sidebar card. And anything can go in the sidebar card a person

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