292: Building Design Systems (feat. Linzi Berry)
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Lyft Design Manager: Lindsey Barry
Lindsey Barry is a design manager on the design systems team at Lyft. She previously worked for SpaceX, Tesla and Audemars Piguet. Here's an audio interview with her about what it takes to run a good design system.
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
- Send your Ep 300 ideas to us @designdetailsfm
- 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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