Design System Office Hours
Davy Fung + PJ Onori
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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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DEC 18, 2025
Ep 92: Naming is Hard
Davy and PJ tackle the notorious difficulty of naming in design systems, advocating for human-readable, descriptive language over "cute" metaphors and discussing how AI is making file cleanliness more critical than ever.
23 MIN
DEC 4, 2025
Ep 91: The Erosion of Open Design Systems
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.
26 MIN
NOV 13, 2025
Ep 90: WTF is Craft
Davy and PJ talk about the term "craft," 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.
31 MIN
OCT 30, 2025
Ep 89: Figma Slots Conference
Davy talks to PJ about his trip to see Figma's slots conference, formerly known as Schema. We talk about the releases and rejoice on a focus on the main editor again.
40 MIN
OCT 15, 2025
Ep 88: Stay in Learning Mode w/ Ben Callahan
Davy talks to friend of the program, Ben Callahan from Sparkbox about his series The Question, which brings together design system designers bi-weekly to share and learn collaboratively in a 60-min workshop.
26 MIN
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