Design System Office Hours

Davy Fung + PJ Onori
  • 5.0 (10)
  • DESIGN
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Davy and PJ, design system practitioners talk about design-led product ownership, scaling and adoption, community and engagement, design system team models, and much more.

  1. 12/18/2025

    Ep 92: Naming is Hard

    Davy and PJ tackle the notorious difficulty of naming in design systems, advocating for human-readable, descriptive language over "cute" metaphors and discussing how AI is making file cleanliness more critical than ever.

    24 min

  2. 12/04/2025

    Ep 91: The Erosion of Open Design Systems

    Davy and PJ discuss a potential trend of major design systems going from public to internal only, stressing that public documentation is the ultimate forcing function for quality and a huge win for the community.

    27 min

  3. 11/13/2025

    Ep 90: WTF is Craft

    Davy and PJ talk about the term "craft," emphasizing that high-quality design work requires designers to understand engineering constraints and that a good design system needs to provide education, not just components and prototypes.

    31 min

  4. 10/30/2025

    Ep 89: Figma Slots Conference

    Davy talks to PJ about his trip to see Figma's slots conference, formerly known as Schema. We talk about the releases and rejoice on a focus on the main editor again.

    40 min

  5. 10/15/2025

    Ep 88: Stay in Learning Mode w/ Ben Callahan

    Davy talks to friend of the program, Ben Callahan from Sparkbox about his series The Question, which brings together design system designers bi-weekly to share and learn collaboratively in a 60-min workshop.

    27 min

  6. 09/30/2025

    Ep 87: Thinking Like an Engineer

    Davy and PJ talk about how amongst many good engineering traits, the rigor, and ways they work should be more adopted by product designers and specially us, maintainers. If we can track, version, and test our work as rigorously as engineers, we would be in a higher quality bar.

    28 min

  7. 09/18/2025

    Ep 86: I'm New to the TEAM w/ Guy Segal

    Davy talks special co-host, Guy Segal, about his first month at his new design systems job at Atlassian, and the fun of being a newbie after the first 30 days, when the going really starts getting tough.

    36 min

  8. 09/04/2025

    Ep 85: Design Systems Ambassador

    Davy and PJ talk about the role of our designers on the ground, we call them our ambassadors. These good eggs not only inform our day-to-day product improvements, but help keep up informed across the org.

    38 min
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Davy and PJ, design system practitioners talk about design-led product ownership, scaling and adoption, community and engagement, design system team models, and much more.

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  • Creator
    Davy Fung + PJ Onori
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    94
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Davy Fung + PJ Onori
  • Show Website
    Design System Office Hours

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