Communicating design systems
summary
Argues that success depends on concrete choices not slogans and shows how teams use Fluent and Microsoft To Do work to align creators and consumers with tooling like Azure DevOps component lifecycles and Orbit decision trees plus Loom video onboarding. Recommends reducing surface area to five core modules, running shared workstreams (dark mode, icons, UX patterns) to hit roughly 80% coherence while planning for large hiring gaps (about 75% of team not yet onboarded).
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:28Design systems, now
- 11:30The right foundation for the job
- 16:58Productive conversations
- 23:04Shared goals
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