The Single Source of Truth: Design to Code
SE01EP06 — If a value changes in your design file, how long before it's live in production? If you can't answer in seconds — you don't have a single source of truth.
Design System as a Project
Six episodes on how to get a design system from zero to one — without building on assumptions or skipping the foundation.
Token Drift: The Silent System Killer
SE01EP05 — Tokens don't create consistency. They expose whether your assumptions were consistent to begin with. A personal story about building tokens for a medium I had never designed for.
The Pilot Phase
SE01EP04 — One component in production beats two hundred in Figma. Here's how to find the right one.
The Charter Document
EP03 — Every design system launch meeting ends with full alignment. Three months later, nobody agrees on anything. The charter is the document that prevents that gap.
The Architecture of Zero
EP02 — Most design system teams start at the wrong layer. Six months later: two hundred components, three percent adoption. The sequence was wrong from the start.
Your Design System Is Not a Project. That's the Problem.
EP01 — Most design systems don't fail because of bad components. They fail because of one thinking error. Here's what it is.