4 Reasons Your Design System Will Fail
How operational process — or the lack of it — quietly determines whether a design system holds up, with Cathy from the Nine Labs design team.
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Design Driven
Conversations with the designers, builders, and operators shaping how products actually get made.
About the show
Design Driven is a podcast about using design thinking to build great products and lasting companies. Host J Cornelius sits down with founders, design leaders, engineers, and operators — the people actually doing the work — to unpack how the best products get made.
Each episode digs into a specific problem: how teams decide what to build, how design systems hold up under real-world pressure, what gets in the way of clear product thinking, and what to do about it. No hype, no jargon for its own sake. Just practitioners talking shop.
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How Cognitive Load is Hindering Your UX
A look at how cognitive load shapes user experience — and the small choices that quietly lighten or compound the burden your product puts on people.
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Quit Playing Games: How to Get the Right Message to Your Product Team
Why teams talk past each other on product work — and what it takes to align messaging across departments so the actual work can move.
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If you're building something interesting and want to talk about how the work actually gets done, send a note. The best episodes start with a real problem and a willingness to be honest about it.