Back to School with Amy Hupe and Geri Reid

Back to School #6: Accessibility and Design Systems

Is there really such a thing as an accessible design system component? How can the systems team ensure accessible products? Geri and Amy turn the colour contrast up to 11:1 in their final podcast on accessibility.

Back to School #5: Design System Governance

Does a centralized team provide the most effective design system governance model? Can a single overlord provide cohesion or just become a bottleneck? And can a federated model ever really work? Amy and Geri join the debate team to argue the pros and cons of design system governance.

Back to School #4: Naming in Design Systems

There is already a name for most things on the web. So why do design systems put so much time and effort into naming things? Why is deciding on the name of a component more challenging than naming your child? Geri and Amy give names a roll call.

Back to School #3: Design Tokens

Amy Hupe [https://twitter.com/Amy_Hupe] and Geri Reid [https://twitter.com/gerireid] are back in the class to teach you all about design tokens. They break it down, so you leave after acing the pop quiz. There’s a lot of chatter about design tokens. Why do you need tokens? And how do you architect them when there’s so much conflicting advice?

Back to School #2: Figma UI Kits

Recess is over! Amy Hupe [https://twitter.com/Amy_Hupe] and Geri Reid [https://twitter.com/gerireid] are back in the classroom with the next episode of Back to School. This time, they talked about all of Figma UI kits. Are you a real design system without a Figma UI kit? Does it need to be a pixel-perfect copy of your code? What’s the source of truth? More pressingly, can a Figma library BE your design system?