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Nov 2021
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40. Zach Hendershot and Aaron Stone from...

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Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Zach, Aaron, and Chris discuss the commonalities between design systems and products, as well as how a product-driven mindset can help your design systems achieve new levels of enterprise adoption and scale. Guest: Zach Hendershot is a Managing Partner at Crux Digital. He is a leader with a diverse background of build ... Show More
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41. Mike Bowser from Vista: The past, present, and future of design systems
Send us feedback or episode suggestions.Mike and Chris discuss design systems at the enterprise level, the history of systems, and UX design at the beginning of the internet. Guest: Mike Bowser is the Design Director, Design Systems at Vista. He is a UX/UI designer, design team l ... Show More
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42. Neva Corbo-Hudak and Rogin Farrer from Wayfair: The long evolution of a web design system
Send us feedback or episode suggestions.Wayfair, the ubiquitous online retailer, is more than just wayfair.com: the company owns Perigold, Joss & Main, and Birch Lane. Neva, Rogin, and Chris discuss how Wayfair united three disparate design systems into one; the gradual process o ... Show More
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43. Matt May and Veda Rosier from Adobe: Building an accessible, inclusive design system
Send us feedback or episode suggestions.Matt, Veda, and Chris discuss how Matt and Veda have incorporated accessibility and inclusion into one of the world’s most well-known design systems, Spectrum. Matt shares his experience getting accessibility principles into Spectrum on the ... Show More
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