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Principal at Big Medium, design system consultant, web designer/developer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist

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Friendly reminder: names/architecture/conventions/syntax matter. The specifics matter less than you might think, but it's crucial to make decisions, stick to them, document them, and cultivate shared understanding. #frontend #uxdesign #designsystems #uidesign #digitaldesign #development

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Gerald Fullam

Software User Interface Maker

6mo

Good reminder. Can you give an example of a time when a client failed at this? What was the effect?

Ken Skistimas

Senior Product Design Manager - ServiceNow

6mo

Preach it. I’m currently in month three of a terminology alignment project.

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Jesse Gonzalez

Product Design Leader | Expert in UX Strategy, Scalable Design Systems, & Design Operations

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Isn’t this 101 stuff? Friendly reminder I guess. Haha. 😆

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Viktoria Ignatieva

Co-founder and Head of Recruitment at OnHires | Global tech recruitment for future unicorns 🦄

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Kevin, just dropped you a message! :)

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Good reminder. What cultural & process norms do you suggest to help cultivate shared understanding?

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Friendly reminder: names/architecture/conventions/syntax matter. The specifics matter less than you might think, but it's crucial to make decisions, stick to them, document them, and cultivate shared understanding. #frontend #uxdesign #designsystems #uidesign #digitaldesign #development
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As always Brad has the knowledge.

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💡 Make design systems a priority by attaching the effort to other priorities. In order for a design system to be successful, it must be a priority. If it's not, it will die. But design systems are a means to an end; the trick is to make a design system a priority by making it a critical component of accomplishing other priorities. - The checkout redesign/rebuild is a priority => the design system provides many of the checkout UI components - Rolling out the rebrand is a priority => the design system's token architecture is the vehicle of rolling out the rebrand - Replatforming to the new CMS is a priority => the design system's components power the UI layer of the new CMS It takes careful work to strike a balance between advancing product work while simultaneously establishing critical design system infrastructure. That's what our team at Big Medium has been helping clients do for the last decade. It's an artform! #designsystems #design #uxdesign #frontend

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If you’re trying to sell others in your organization on your design system vision, challenge yourself to sell the same vision without using “design system“ and all the other jargon that makes it feel like a new priority instead of an accelerator to others.

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