'You inject the design system into the very bloodstream of the whole product portfolio—as a general rule, it’s a bad idea to inject crap into the bloodstream.'

So many design system takeaways from this absolute banger from Josh Clark 🤟

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Ship Faster by Building Design Systems Slower bigmedium.com/ideas/design-s… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=395014…)

From 2019 and still v relevant in 2024 👉🏼 aiga.org/inspiration/ta… by Josh Clark

Wooooo! We're excited to announce our new newsletter, 'A Little Big Medium.' The newsletter will share ideas and resources to help you and your team design for what's next — and do it at scale.

The first issue drops tomorrow; sign up here: bigmedium.com/ideas/big-medi…

Heard about this thing called email? We think it's gonna be big. Please enjoy Big Medium's new email newsletter (first edition goes out tomorrow!).

It's about designing what's next and doing it at scale (design systems, AI, product design). Sign up here: bigmedium.com/ideas/big-medi…

You know that thing when you open an email and you suddenly swoon with knowledge, inspiration, and a renewed sense of professional purpose?

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NO??? Maybe you need 'A Little Big Medium,' our new email newsletter. It launches next week. Sign up here: bigmedium.com/ideas/big-medi…

Lean budgets make this a 'do more with less' era for digital orgs—more important than ever to solve delivery at scale/speed. On Design Systems Podcast podcast, I shared what digital orgs need to do to become high-performing teams (including in the eyes of the CFO). bigmedium.com/speaking/podca…

❤️Kevin Coyle's ideas about how AI can make work more efficient, sure, but also more inclusive. He shares ideas/demos that emerged from his work with Dr. Frank (Big Medium's AI platform) and how it's changing our client work & our individual practices. bigmedium.com/speaking/ai-we…

Whatchya doing at noon ET today? Join me on the Design Systems Field Guide livestream. Gonna chat design system process, design/dev handoff, and how agencies (like Big Medium!) can help companies make it all work better. linkedin.com/events/7123716…

It's official! Brad Frost is now formally a principal at Big Medium—after a decade (!!) of working together to help complex orgs do big design. So happy to call Brad a dear friend, a fellow traveler, and now a partner. More great work and adventures ahead for this growing team!

A lot of other agencies do the type of work that we do. But as we often say in our design system work, success has far less to do with assets and more to do with people and their relationships to one another.

And it's working with humans that is Big Medium's secret sauce.