How do you make developers to care about your design system?

About this episode

The episode discusses strategies to engage developers with design systems.

Episode 54 - How do you make developers to care about your design system? Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience. Getting developers interested in the design system still seems to be a challenge for a lot of design system teams in 2026. So ho...

People in this episode

Hosts: Luke Murphy, Michelle Chin

Topics covered

• design systems
• developer engagement
• Q&A
• live recording
• design challenges

Keywords

• design system
• developers
• engagement
• challenges
• Q&A

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