292: Building Design Systems (feat. Linzi Berry)

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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