#48 Managing design system projects - with Varya Stepanova

Varya started her career as a Frontend Developer and was always passionate and engaged in working with design & frontend components before design systems were invented. At some point, she decided to use her knowledge and focusing on helping companies and the community on building design systems in the right way and understand the value. In this episode, Varya talks about how to manage a design project in the most structured way and how to convince senior leadership teams of its value based on data. 👉 Episode feedback survey ✍️   Table of content: 00:30 - Episode intro 01:50 - Intro Varya 04:10 - Engineering vs. design mindset 06:30 - Best timing to build a design system 08:50 - How to allocate resources & focus 11:05 - Kicking off the project  17:30 - Communicating & aligning across the organization 21:55 - Convincing Senior Leadership Teams 26:35 - Design systems vs. creativity 28:30 - Biggest mistakes companies do with design systems 32:45 - Varya's design system course   Follow Varya: Design system course: https://hands-on-workshop.varya.me/ Website: https://varya.me/ Linkedin: @varyastepanova Twitter @varya_en ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/