
Design That Scales

Using a design system advocates efficiency.
Dan Mall • Design That Scales
And as every good engineer knows, you optimize afterward.
Dan Mall • Design That Scales
FIGURE 6.5AMagic happens when a connected and safe team gets into a state of flow.
Dan Mall • Design That Scales
Lay Out Your Design System like a Store
Dan Mall • Design That Scales
I found friends through the DesignOps Assembly Slack community. I ended up pivoting away from DesignOps when I joined zeroheight. My focus is more on consulting, writing best practices, and building a community. But my role as a design advocate leans heavily into my experience in DesignOps and design systems. But it’s hard to give up once you devel
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Then repeat this process. Forever. For as long as your company exists.
Dan Mall • Design That Scales
But the important thing here is that there’s dedicated time allocated to effort that often gets left until last.
Dan Mall • Design That Scales
Regardless of the specific line of questioning, talk to about 30 people. That’s a large enough subset to give you a mountain of insight about what’s important to the organization as a whole.
Dan Mall • Design That Scales
Visual languages are an important and prevalent kind of design system in our brand-saturated world.