Contribution plays a central role in the growth and evolution of design systems, but identifying the right process to foster regular and valuable contributions isn’t always straightforward. Let’s talk about why… — In mature design systems, we expect to see high levels of adoption, advocation, and engagement. With this comes sustainability through regular and diverse contributions from a range of consumers, all actively engaged in growing the experience language. In an ideal world at least!

How to use Team Health Checks to get a handle on the feels — health, happiness, creativity, and impact. — Great design teams work smart, not hard Often, we’re the smallest team in the product trio (product, design, and engineering). To maximize the impact of our hard work we need good process, good support, and a good understanding of where to focus our efforts. …

Over the years I’ve seen the conversation around accessibility grow. Where once, the challenge centered around building understanding and empathy for users with disabilities and impairments, I see that the challenge has started to shift. — Not a week goes by that I don’t read an article or hear a conversation about actioning on accessibility. Teams who have achieved business-level buy-in to develop accessible products now face a larger challenge, actually achieving it.

UX, Coffee + Code — S204 ‎UX, Coffee + Code (Design Show): 10: Scaling Accessibility at Skyscanner with Heather Hepburn on… Join Jason and Mark as they learn how Heather Hepburn and her team are driving accessibility at scale within…podcasts.apple.com Speakers Mark Boyes-Smith — Host Jason Haritou — Host Heather Hepburn — Accessibility Lead, Skyscanner Transcript Mark Boyes-Smith: Hello Creative Creatures Episode four of the season already. Can you believe it?

How can we improve our careers? How can we improve our lives? How can we get to be a better version of ourselves? — These are the types of questions that we have all had, at one point or another. The answers are tricky and multi-faceted, but boil down to the same thing, learning. Transmitting knowledge from someone else who has the experience and information we need to move forward. …

Let me tell you about four ways that design systems can help you scale, align, and enhance your digital ecosystem — In recent years, design systems have become a seriously hot topic in the technology industry. Pioneered by the likes of Airbnb, IBM, and Google, we’ve seen how the systemization of user experience can bring teams together and support product development at scale. All too often, I find that the definition…

Typography is one of the key fundamentals of a design system. Alongside color and spacing, a solid approach to typography will help to establish the building blocks of a system on which patterns and components are composed. — A typography stack (or typographic hierarchy) is quite simply a collection of typestyles. Each style specifies values for a shared set of typography-related settings like font size and weight.

Last week, Alicia Crowther joined me on the UX, Coffee + Code podcast to talk about Accessibility and how researchers can bring the conversation to life through personas. You might have seen us speak about this earlier this year at UXCrunch Manchester. The talk inspired some fantastic questions from the…

Alicia Crowther and I have pulled together this resource to illustrate how research personas can be used to create accessible solutions. There are six personas described here, covering challenges with; Effort and complex interactions (Edith) Alternative formats (Arturo) Visual clarity (Colin) Visual contrast (Keith) Offline users (Olivia) Simplicity (Serena) You…