July 24, 2023
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Chris Strahl

Building Thriving Design System Communities with Christophe Coutzoukis Design System Lead at Zapier

Christophe and Chris discuss the art of building thriving design system communities. They share their profound insights and experiences, offering valuable perspectives on fostering vibrant and inclusive communities that flourish with creativity and collaboration.

July 19, 2023
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Josh Mabry

How to chat with your knowledge base

We’ll take a look at how to use ChatGPT and similar language models to answer questions based on your documentation.

July 12, 2023
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Chris Strahl

Harnessing the power of design systems to unify your team with Adam Sedwick, Senior Product Manager

Adam and Chris discuss the power of design systems and their ability to break down barriers between designers and developers.

June 22, 2023
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Chris Strahl

Richard Banfield, Advisor & Recovering CEO: What does iterative work look like in design systems?

Richard and Chris discuss iterative work and how integral thinking by doing is when progressing work forward.

June 20, 2023
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Lindsay Jones

Why Design Systems Fail

The root cause of design systems' failure is centered around the lack of focus on the people.

June 15, 2023
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Chris Strahl

Using system thinking to make informed decisions with Sheryl Cababa, Chief Strategy Officer at Substantial

Sheryl and Chris discuss the complexities of the design system space as it involves human behaviours.

May 31, 2023
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Chris Strahl

Designing to scale with Danielle MacDonald Creative Head, Digital Product Design at Waters

Hear from Creative Head, Danielle MacDonald on the impact of designing at scale and how it can increase ROI.

May 24, 2023
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Chris Strahl

People are the heart of design systems with Chris Deluca Senior Front-End Developer at Lullabot

Chris Deluca and Chris discuss the significance of prioritizing people in the process of developing design systems. They explore a central question that consistently arises: Whose lives are you striving to enrich and simplify?

May 23, 2023
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Jake Love

Simplify your Knapsack-powered design system with Figma and Tailwind integrations: May product updates

We’re excited to announce we’ve open sourced some of our design tokens tools, made it easier for you to manage content within your design system, and have enhanced features to make it easier to integrate with Figma Tokens Studio and Tailwind.

May 16, 2023
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Chris Strahl

Design with code and AI: Pinata's Kendall Totten interviews Knapsack CEO Chris Strahl

Kendall and Chris discuss how design systems represent the strategic platform for how a company creates product.

May 10, 2023
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Chris Strahl

The single source of truth mentality: Meta, pt. 2

A round table discussion hosted by Chris and Andrew from Knapsack with the Meta Blueprint team, part two.

May 3, 2023
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Chris Strahl

Driving consistency across systems: Meta, pt. 1

A round table discussion hosted by Chris and Andrew from Knapsack with the Meta Blueprint team (part one).

April 27, 2023
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Jake Love

Product updates: Experience accessible and coordinated Workflows in Knapsack

March and April have been very busy for our product team and we’ve got some exciting updates to share.

April 26, 2023
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Chris Strahl

Design token takes, pt. 2

Kaelig, Darren, and Chris talk tokens and code: “Using a whole different type of brain.”

April 25, 2023
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Josh Mabry

Using AI to Improve Web Accessibility

Explore the current state of web accessibility, the tools available that use AI technology, and advice on incorporating them into your own products.

April 18, 2023
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Chris Strahl

Design token takes, pt. 1

Amber, Taylor, and Chris talk tokens; the pros and cons.

April 6, 2023
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Chris Bloom

Building more inclusive products for a better user experience

A recap of our conversation with Catharine McNally, GitHub, on building more inclusive products for a better user experience.

March 30, 2023
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Jon Weaver

The Importance of strategic viewpoints in selecting design systems

The importance of strategic viewpoints during the process of selecting design systems as well as the benefits of design systems.

March 23, 2023
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Jake Love

All you need for your design system checklist

A checklist to gain a clear understanding of the success of their design system and make informed decisions about its future development.

March 16, 2023
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Josh Mabry

Accessibility in Design Systems

Creating websites and products that are accessible to all is essential for enhancing the user experience.

March 13, 2023
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Chris Strahl

Is a design system a business asset or a technical asset?

Morgane and Chris discuss how design systems can extend beyond being just a technical asset to offer business value, patterns, and ROI.

March 7, 2023
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Jake Love

Building a Sustainable and Scalable Workflow Around Design Tokens

Looking at what design tokens are, how to theme with tokens, and what their standards are as well as how to manage tokens using Knapsack.

March 7, 2023
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Evan Lovely

Evan Lovely CTO & Co-Founder of Knapsack: Source of truth should be the user experience

Evan and Chris discuss source of truth and how it is linked most importantly to overall user experience opposed to just design or code.

February 23, 2023
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Brittany Smart

How to build your design system from start to finish

Knapsack’s Design System Process Miro Board is available for visual representation of design system processes, and practical templates to copy and use.

February 17, 2023
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Mark Reynolds

The future possibilities of design tokens

Design tokens have been embraced across the industry as a simple yet powerful way to align design, engineering, and product teams on core brand styling.

February 8, 2023
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Jake Love

Planning the technical architecture of your design system

These are our biggest takeaways and common themes from our conversations on design system technical architecture.

February 2, 2023
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Evan Lovely

Design Tokens in Knapsack

We’ve organized our perspective into a few key areas we see as critical to building a sustainable and scalable workflow around design tokens.

January 11, 2023
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Lindsay Jones

The Design Systems Podcast reaches 100K listens

Knapsack is excited to announce that our Design System podcast has reached 100,000 listens!

December 9, 2022
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Andrew Rohman

Design System Tooling: DIY, End-to-end, or multi-tool?

Knapsack explores the three tool options for design systems; DIY / Build your own, End-to-end platforms and Multi-tool integration.

October 31, 2022
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Andrew Rohman

Design System Adoption Insights

We surveyed over 100 design system managers and contributors to better understand the challenges they’re facing around adoption. Here are 5 of the top insights that the survey revealed.

September 29, 2022
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Eva Morrison

Theming in Design Systems

Join Jake Love, Knapsack's Senior Solutions Engineer, for a 30 minute deep dive into theming, with real, live examples of design system theming.

September 21, 2022
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Eva Morrison

Evan Lovely, Chris Bloom, Jake Love, and Brittany Smart from Knapsack: Hot Takes on the State of Design Systems

Evan Lovely (Head of Product & Engineering), Chris Bloom (Principal Front-End Engineer), Jake Love (Senior Solutions Engineer), and Brittany Smart (Solutions Engineer) join Chris to discuss the state of design systems today. Listen to hot takes on everything from the lesser known elements of successful design systems to the role vulnerability should play in your system.

September 20, 2022
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Eva Morrison

Knapsack Demo with CEO Chris Strahl

Join CEO and co-founder, Chris Strahl, for an in-depth overview of Knapsack's enterprise-grade design system platform.

September 7, 2022
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Eva Morrison

Stephen Gates: What makes a good design leader?

Stephen Gates and Chris discuss the realities of design system leadership, unconventional sources of inspiration, and the impact of design on society.

August 4, 2022
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Eva Morrison

Using design tokens to unify styling across products

Knapsack’s Senior Solutions Engineer Jake Love joins us for a 30-minute conversation that will give teams more insight into the role design tokens play in a successful design system. Gain an understanding of exactly what design tokens are (and aren’t), ways designers and developers can use tokens in their everyday workflows, and how Knapsack’s token engine helps teams work more efficiently.

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