<description>&lt;p&gt;Building vs. Inheriting: Davy and PJ discuss the performance cost of design system dependencies. Learn how to choose the right framework without bloating your system or losing control of your architecture.&lt;/p&gt;
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Building vs. Inheriting: Davy and PJ discuss the performance cost of design system dependencies. Learn how to choose the right framework without bloating your system or losing control of your architecture.

Ep 94: Tech Dependencies

<description>&lt;p&gt;Davy and PJ celebrate four years of &lt;em&gt;Design System Office Hours&lt;/em&gt; by looking ahead at the shifting landscape of 2026. They explore how interoperability, open-source tooling, and AI-driven documentation being major themes to uplevel design system practices.&lt;/p&gt;
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Davy and PJ celebrate four years of Design System Office Hours by looking ahead at the shifting landscape of 2026. They explore how interoperability, open-source tooling, and AI-driven documentation being major themes to uplevel design system practices.

Ep 93: 2026 and our 4th Podcast Bday

<description>&lt;p&gt;Davy and PJ tackle the notorious difficulty of naming in design systems, advocating for human-readable, descriptive language over &amp;quot;cute&amp;quot; metaphors and discussing how AI is making file cleanliness more critical than ever.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Davy and PJ tackle the notorious difficulty of naming in design systems, advocating for human-readable, descriptive language over &quot;cute&quot; metaphors and discussing how AI is making file cleanliness more critical than ever.

Ep 92: Naming is Hard

<description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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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.

Ep 91: The Erosion of Open Design Systems

<description>&lt;p&gt;Davy and PJ talk about the term &amp;quot;craft,&amp;quot; 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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Davy and PJ talk about the term &quot;craft,&quot; 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.

Ep 90: WTF is Craft

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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