Podcast Season 2 ยท Episode 25
Building & Maintaining Design Systems
Michael Chan talks all about how to build and maintain Design Systems. Brittney and I have a few ideas of our own too.

Guests
Questions
- Can you give us some of your background and how you ended up at Chromatic (Storybook)?
- How would you describe Storybook and Chromatic and what are they used for?
- At what point do you need a design system?
- Who owns a design system? (Designers or developers)
- Do most design systems still use Atomic Design?
- How to get feedback?
- What are the benefits of Chromatic?
- Zero Height sharing Stories
- How important are Design tokens?
- How do you maintain a design system over time?
- Customizability
- Possibly demo storybook if we get a chance (I can try and set this up in a coding cat branch)
- Empathy Day!
Picks
Alex Patterson: AirBnB Design System
Alex Patterson: Using Components within an Atomic Design System
Brittney Postma: Brad Frost and Storybook
Brittney Postma: Atomic Design
Michael Chan: Basecamp Shapeup