About this episode

The episode discusses the concept of governance in design systems and questions its actual value versus being mere theater.

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. Governance seems to be one of those fancy words that gets thrown around a lot by design system people - but what level of governance is actually worthwhile, and how much of it is theater? Michelle and Lu...

People in this episode

Hosts: Luke Murphy, Michelle Chin

Topics covered

• design systems
• governance
• Q&A
• live recording
• theater

Keywords

• design systems
• governance
• theater
• Q&A
• live podcast

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