Varya started her career as a Frontend Developer and was always passionate and engaged in working with design & frontend components before design systems were invented. At some point, she decided to use her knowledge and focusing on helping companies and the community on building design systems in the right way and understand the value.

In this episode, Varya talks about how to manage a design project in the most structured way and how to convince senior leadership teams of its value based on data.

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Table of content:

00:30 - Episode intro
01:50 - Intro Varya
04:10 - Engineering vs. design mindset
06:30 - Best timing to build a design system
08:50 - How to allocate resources & focus
11:05 - Kicking off the project
17:30 - Communicating & aligning across the organization
21:55 - Convincing Senior Leadership Teams
26:35 - Design systems vs. creativity
28:30 - Biggest mistakes companies do with design systems
32:45 - Varya's design system course

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Design system course: https://hands-on-workshop.varya.me/
Website: https://varya.me/
Linkedin: @varyastepanova
Twitter @varya_en

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#48 Managing design system projects - with Varya Stepanova