Implementing a Design System in a Traditionally Bureaucratic Company
summary
Explains challenges of building a design system from scratch inside a traditionally bureaucratic company where design and product teams already have established ways of working. Describes concrete approach used by a design-system team to organize structures and workflows across teams, and references tools and practices for creating reusable UI systems and standardized visual identity (implemented at Banco Compartamos while working at Multiplica).
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Design System introduction
- 4:25Startups vs corporations
- 10:04Gradual implementation steps
- 17:27Bureaucracy adaptation
- 20:21Design system pro tip
- 21:46Component maintenance
- 23:09Cultural change evangelism
- 24:14Accepting a Design System
- 25:59Adoption in non-agile companies
- 28:07Client resistance handling
- 30:38Personal professional challenges
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