Guest · Wireframe Live
Spec of Truth
Long-form conversation on treating the spec — not the code — as a design system's source of truth.
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Talks, podcast conversations, and the show I hosted for a season — all on design systems.
Guest Appearances
Guest · Design Systems Podcast (Knapsack)
Exploring Alexandrian Patterns in Design Systems
Christopher Alexander's pattern language, applied to design systems — drawn from the work at Dow Jones.
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Panelist · Design Systems Field Guide
Naming Things Is Hard
A panel on the hardest problem in design systems: naming things well enough to survive contact with three teams and two brands.
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Speaker · Patterns NYC
Patterns NYC
Design systems, in front of the room, at Knapsack's invite-only retreat for design-systems and product leaders.
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Guest Speaker · Design Systems Diaries
Building Scalable, Accessible Color Systems
Global tokens, neutral-500 versus gray-500, naming conventions, and the inversion strategy that makes dark mode a flip instead of a rebuild.
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Speaker · Medium Day
How to Name Design Tokens in a Design System
Three years of writing on naming — typography, color, taxonomy — compressed into one working talk.
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Host & Creator
Design Systems Rodeo
A zeroheight original. Six episodes, six guests, one format: sit down with someone who's solved a design-systems problem and make them show their work.
- Consistently Inconsistent
- Game On
- Culture Club
- True Colours
- Deep Impact
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All Systems Go!