Design Systems WTF

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A podcast from zeroheight.Let’s be honest, design systems are full of choice wtf moments. Michelle and Luke, two of our resident design advocates, are attempting to combat this with a new regular series, where they answer a single question around design system troubles every two weeks. 

  1. 5日前

    Is generative UI ever going to happen?

    Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience. A few years ago everyone started talking about how AI-powered interfaces are going to start generating UI on the fly. But how close is that from being a reality? Have there been any advances towards it being a mainstream thing? And what do we need to know from a design systems perspective to cater towards it? Show notes Rachel-Lee Nabors — "Death of the Browser" — the talk that sparked the topicChatGPT Apps SDK — the plugin-style generative UI route, with Booking.com among the launch partnersInteractive apps in Claude (MCP Apps) — the Anthropic equivalent A2UI — Google's declarative spec letting agents send UI as component descriptions rather than executing codeThe Complete Guide to Generative UI Frameworks in 2026 — a rundown of the generative UI framework landscape, covering A2UI, CopilotKit/AG-UI, MCP Apps and moreNN/g's 10 Usability Heuristics — the "codified best practice" comparisonGeri Reid — the Converge US talk — Geri’s talk about flexibility and NewsKitGet in touch Luke on BlueskyMichelle on Bluesky

  2. 9月1日

    What should we call design systems?

    Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience. We really screwed the pooch when it came to naming design systems. Why is the name so bad? And should we call it something else? Or should we bin the whole concept of design systems and start over in a completely decommodified way? Show notes NASA Graphics Standards Manual — the classic design handbook Luke referencesA Pattern Language — Christopher Alexander's town planning/architecture bookApple Human Interface GuidelinesAtomic Design — Brad Frost's original article, which credits the earlier pattern library workAnna Debenham and Laura Kalbag — referenced in that article as part of the originsCo-op Experience Library — Co-op's renamed design system; their follow-up post explains they changed the name because "design system" implies it's only for designers, which backs up the whole episode thesis Co-op Digital BlogValve's Handbook for New Employees — the famously flat, no-job-titles structure Luke half-remembers (it was Valve, not Epic)Luke on BlueskyMichelle on Bluesky

  3. 8月18日

    What is the future of agentic design systems?

    Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience. Agentic is the buzz word of the moment - but what does it actually mean for design systems? Luke and Michelle have a real conversation about what's hype, what's possible, and where they see it all going. Show notes Luke's webinar on automating documentation — the session covering the facts / distilled / authored bucketsTJ Pitre / Southleft — doing agentic design system work (also behind FigmaLint with Brad and Ian Frost)Sil Bormüller — founder of Into Design SystemsRomina Kavčič — The Design System Guide — the knowledge-graph-to-pattern work Luke describesDesign System Documentation Spec (DSDS) — what you're auditing zeroheight docs againstObsidian and Roam Research — knowledge-graph tools mentioned by MichelleThe Information Architecture Conference — Michelle's conference, which usually runs a knowledge graphs workshopn8n — Luke's stacked-agents automation instanceClaude Code — used in Luke's Figma-MCP-to-code component flowzeroheight MCP — for the docs-as-context part of that flowPaper — mentioned by Mark in chat for better HTML outputPencil — design-as-code tool with .pen filesPenpot — the open-source, web-dev-structured design toolGet in touch Luke on BlueskyMichelle on Bluesky

  4. 8月4日

    How do you get research findings back to the design system team?

    Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience. We're all in agreement that UX Research and design systems should work hand in hand. But how do you actually get this to work in practice? How can UX Researchers and design systems folks work best together? What cadence should you be doing things? And should you be included research findings as part of your design system documentation? Show notes Design System Documentation Spec (DSDS)zeroheight MCPzeroheight MCP overview (help docs)Design Systems WTF #39 — Should designers know how to code?zeroheight Design Systems ReportLuke on BlueskyMichelle on Bluesky

  5. 7月21日

    Is Governance Just Theater?

    Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience. Governance seems to be one of those fancy words that gets thrown around a lot by design system people - but what level of governance is actually worthwhile, and how much of it is theater? Michelle and Luke will dive into governance, what level is good enough, and what bits they think you should scrap. Show notes Brad Frost's governance flowchart — the component approval flow Michelle borrowed and adapted: A Design System Governance Process. Also available as a Figma community file, and his lighter-touch follow-up: Master design system governance with this one weird trickNathan Curtis on governance and contribution — his writing on contribution models referenced in the episode: Contributions to Design Systems and Team Models for Scaling a Design SystemManaging Chaos: Digital Governance by Design by Lisa Welchman — Michelle's book recommendation for adding process in a way that isn't "gross", with a historical look at how web governance emerged: Rosenfeld MediaOrg Design for Design Orgs by Peter Merholz & Kristin Skinner — Luke's companion-piece recommendation on ritual and process for design teams, transferable to design systems: petermerholz.com / O'ReillyBig Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul — the Netflix documentary on Juul and "how not to do a startup": Netflix

  6. 7月14日

    What do the Config 2026 announcements mean for design systems?

    Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience. Config 2026 happened in San Francisco last week, so we got together straight after the announcements to discuss what the announcements mean for design systems folks - from code on the canvas, to agents, skills, and connectors, to Figma Motion. What will these announcements mean for the work we do day to day? Show notes Blog post - What do the Config 2026 announcements mean for design systems?

  7. 7月7日

    ⁠⁠Is driving adoption just a polite way of begging

    Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience. Adoption has been the perennial curse of design systems. Always a problem, never quite fixed, and loads of opinions about how to do it. But are we approaching it in the right way? Michelle and Luke talk about the problem with how adoption has been positioned, whether it's a tactical or cultural thing, and whether the goal should sit with design systems teams or the wider org. Show notes Design Systems are Dead. Long Live Design Systems

  8. 6月22日

    If AI can generate your design system docs, what does that say about how valuable those docs were in the first place?

    Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience. The State of AI in Design Systems report came out recently, and it shows that everyone is using AI to create documentation. Is this a good thing? Luke and Seb dive into the question of what good documentation is, whether it's even relevant anymore and what parts we should let AI own, and the parts we need to protect.

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A podcast from zeroheight.Let’s be honest, design systems are full of choice wtf moments. Michelle and Luke, two of our resident design advocates, are attempting to combat this with a new regular series, where they answer a single question around design system troubles every two weeks. 

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  • 創作者
    zeroheight
  • 活躍年份
    2023年 - 2026年
  • 單集
    60
  • 分級
    兒童不宜
  • 版權
    © 2026 Zero Height Limited
  • 節目網站
    Design Systems WTF

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