Design System Office Hours

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  Ep 104: The Governance Junk Drawer 22.07.2026 35хв

  Davy and PJ debate how automation, visible chaos, and human judgment can help teams move fast without turning the design system into an expensive junk drawer.
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  Ep 103: Config 2026 Recap 09.07.2026 36хв

  Davy returns from Config with a backpack full of new Figma features. Also our annual discussion of were these releases for us?
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  Ep 102: Figma's History with AI 09.06.2026 36хв

  From the comical wizard prompts of 2024 to the heavy-lifting reality of Figma MCP, Davy and PJ chart the compressed timeline of design system and canvas automation.
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  Ep 101: Sharing Ideas and Open Source 26.05.2026 36хв

  Why do we build in public when corporate nature tells us to hoard our work? Davy and PJ break down the unglamorous reality of sharing open-source tools, micro-contributions, and why 90s music is a hill worth dying on.
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  Ep 100: Happy Podcast Bday, and Schemas 07.05.2026 35хв

  We hit the Centennial! In our 100th episode, Davy and PJ look back on 4 years of our design systems chatter, before diving deep into the future of design systems: a community-driven, machine-readable schema that moves us past the "Figma-as-Source-of-Truth" era.
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  Ep 99: Durable vs Temporal Artifacts 24.04.2026 36хв

  Davy talks about trading a week of manual Figma updates for a "code-to-canvas" workflow that gets us "close enough" while PJ talks about running multiple worker-based agents to do production and qa work in tandem. Are these burner tasks?
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  Ep 98: Zeroheight's 2026 DS Report Chatter 03.04.2026 36хв

  Davy and PJ dive into the Zeroheight's 2026 Design Systems Survey to figure out why 61% of teams are drowning in work while a third of them still have "no plans" to automate—plus, Davy forces PJ to listen to some truly questionable AI-generated design jokes.
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  Ep 97: Tokenize Everything 18.03.2026 30хв

  Davy and PJ dive into the future of design tokens, exploring how to "tokenize everything" from complex color transformations (OKLCH) to utility tokens for motion and content strings.
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  Ep 96: Trying Out New Tooling 24.02.2026 29хв

  Davy and PJ discuss why the future of design workflow isn't just better handoff—it’s starting with the code itself.
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  Ep 95: When Docs Becomes a Liability 11.02.2026 38хв

  Davy and PJ discuss the "liability" of stale documentation and why AI still needs human oversight. They explore using Figma’s API to automate visual updates and kill the "pain in the butt" of manual maintenance.
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  Ep 94: Tech Dependencies 23.01.2026 30хв

  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.
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  Ep 93: 2026 and our 4th Podcast Bday 05.01.2026 30хв

  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.
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  Ep 92: Naming is Hard 18.12.2025 23хв

  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.
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  Ep 91: The Erosion of Open Design Systems 04.12.2025 26хв

  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.
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  Ep 90: WTF is Craft 13.11.2025 31хв

  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.
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  Ep 89: Figma Slots Conference 30.10.2025 40хв

  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.
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  Ep 88: Stay in Learning Mode w/ Ben Callahan 15.10.2025 26хв

  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.
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  Ep 87: Thinking Like an Engineer 30.09.2025 28хв

  Davy and PJ talk about how amongst many good engineering traits, the rigor, and ways they work should be more adopted by product designers and specially us, maintainers. If we can track, version, and test our work as rigorously as engineers, we would be in a higher quality bar.
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  Ep 86: I'm New to the TEAM w/ Guy Segal 18.09.2025 35хв

  Davy talks special co-host, Guy Segal, about his first month at his new design systems job at Atlassian, and the fun of being a newbie after the first 30 days, when the going really starts getting tough.
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  Ep 85: Design Systems Ambassador 04.09.2025 37хв

  Davy and PJ talk about the role of our designers on the ground, we call them our ambassadors. These good eggs not only inform our day-to-day product improvements, but help keep up informed across the org.