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

Follow Varya:

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

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