DesignOps Island Discs

Luke chats to Geri Reid, lead designer on Newskit, News UK's design system, on what a lead designer actually does, how it's different from product design more generally and the problems facing design systems at the moment.

Luke chats to Arielle Benedek, one of the Product Managers on Encore, Spotify's design system, on what a product manager on a design system actually does, what the biggest challenges are, how we need to change what we do, and answers a whole bunch of interesting questions from the live audience.

Luke chats to Amy Hupe, a content specialist and design systems consultant who has worked on some of the biggest design systems in Europe. They chat about what a content specialist actually does, why they're the essential third pillar of a design system, what makes a good design system content person, and some of the things that are exciting Amy about the future of content design in design systems (hello structured content).

Luke chats to Heydon Pickering, an engineer, designer, author, editor, and consultant, about the unique challenges to being a front-end engineer on design systems. From front-of-the-front-end to web components to standards to the challenges of dealing with people.

Luke talks to Sheena Lydon, DPM on Design Systems at Wise, about what a Design Program Manager does on a design system team, why designops is an often overlooked piece of the design team puzzle, and how you get into a designops career.