DesignOps Island Discs – Details, episodes & analysis

DesignOps Island Discs is a live-recorded, interactive podcast, looking at what's coming up in the world of designops and design systems. For season three, we're focussing on the roles that make up designops and design systems, from content designers to leads to engineers to accessibility specialists to DPMs.

For episode 4, we welcome Sheena Lydon, DPM on Design Systems at Wise. We're going to talk to Sheena about being a DPM... what the essential skills for a DPM are, why they're important, both on product and design system teams, and why designops is hands down the best timeline to live in.

DesignOps Island Discs is a live-recorded, interactive podcast, looking at what's coming up in the world of designops and design systems. For season three, we're focussing on the roles that make up designops and design systems, from content designers to leads to engineers to accessibility specialists to DPMs. 

For episode 4, we welcome Heydon Pickering, design and engineering consultant, who has worked with Springer Nature, The Paciello Group, BBC, Smashing Mag, and Bulb. We're going to talk to Heydon about being a front-end engineer on design systems... what the challenges are from an engineering point of view with design systems, what makes a good engineer on design systems, and where we need to be heading.

Jerome de Lafarge, co-founder and CEO at zeroheight talks to us about how to survive in the startup world, where zeroheight came from and where DesignOps is likely headed. 

zeroheight.com

Jerome on Twitter

The National 

The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu

DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next time, bon voyage...

Laura Kennedy, lead designer on design systems at GoodRx, talks to us about the deprioritisation of a design system, what signs to look for, what to do if it does happen and what lessons were learned for future opportunities. 

laura-kennedy.net

Laura on Twitter

Bear Grylls Survival Podcast

The Art Institute of Chicago 

DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next time, bon voyage...

Rogie King, designer advocate at Figma, plugin author and prolific tweeter, talks to us about the power of community and the influence on the design process improvements. 

rog.ie

Rogie's Figma Profile 

Rogie on twitter

Figma Plugins: Table Creator, Breakpoints, SkewDat, Image Tracer.

FigJam

Black Tiger Sex Machine, Futuristic Thriller

Salem's Lot, Stephen King

DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next time, bon voyage...

 Chase McCoy, the driving force behind Seeds at Sprout Social, now a product designer at Stripe, talks to us about documentation as knowledge graphs  and the future of design systems.

chasem.co

Chase on Twitter

Design systems as knowledge graphs

Seeds - Sprout Social 

Frank Ocean, Blonde

Broad Band, Claire L. Evans

DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next time, bon voyage...

We're back with season two, and this season we're talking to even more DesignOps and design systems folks about the nitty gritty of what good DesignOps is. From the future of design system documentation to design tokens to design pairing, season two is going to tool you up and get you shipshape. 

Season Two Episode One will be released at 05:00 GMT on Monday October 11, 2021, with subsequent episodes being released weekly on Mondays, right through to the end of the year.

DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation company, that allows you to create a central hub for your design system for everyone in your org. You can try zeroheight for free today.

You can also follow me, Luke, on Twitter at @lurkmoophy. Until October 11! Bon voyage!

Henrique Gusso, principal designer on Design Systems at Wise, talks to us about what goes into building an effective Design Systems team, from team make-up to product management to contribution models.

• Gusso on Twitter
• Engineering Lead job at Wise
• Hercules - Various Artists
• @horse_ebooks on Twitter

DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next time, bon voyage...

Amy Hupe, content designer and design systems expert, who has been the driving force behind Design Systems at BT, Babylon Health and gov.uk, talks to us about what goes into building a successful contribution model for your design system.

• Amyhupe.co.uk
• Amy on Twitter
• Gov.uk design system
• Content by Design conference
• Sarah Nuefeld - Where the Light Comes In

DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next time, bon voyage...

Peter Merholz, co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs, consultant, conference speaker, podcaster and all-round great human being, talks to us about how his and Kristin's book was born, what's changed in the last five years, some red flags that your org isn't working and how the concept of org design fits within DesignOps. 

• petermerholz.com
• Org Design for Design Orgs
• Peter on Twitter
• Design at Scale conference
• Talking Heads - Remain in Light
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville

DesignOps Island Discs is brought to you by zeroheight, the design system documentation platform. You can jump in at any point and create your first styleguide for free. Until next time, bon voyage...