DSP 132. The Evolution of Digital Production: TJ Pitre Talks Flash, Figma, and the Future of Dynamic Design
Patterns Podcast29 Huhti 2025

DSP 132. The Evolution of Digital Production: TJ Pitre Talks Flash, Figma, and the Future of Dynamic Design

Send us feedback or episode suggestions. In this episode, TJ Pitre, founder of South Left, joins the podcast to trace the real evolution of digital production — from the early days of Flash and Fireworks to today's dynamic, system-driven workflows. TJ shares his journey bridging design and development, reflects on the rise of modern tools like Figma, and explores the shift toward more connected, production-ready design. Along the way, he breaks down the growing role of the design engineer, th...

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23. Vidya Nayak from SoFi: Leading design systems across teams

23. Vidya Nayak from SoFi: Leading design systems across teams

Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Vidya and Chris discuss pathways to becoming a design systems leader, having a content strategy within your design system, personalization considerations, meas...

25 Marras 202031min

22. Demian Borba from Adobe: Understanding and harnessing the power of design tokens

22. Demian Borba from Adobe: Understanding and harnessing the power of design tokens

Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Demian and Chris discuss what design tokens are and why they are a critical part of any design system, getting developers more involved in the design system di...

3 Marras 202038min

21. Jina Anne from Clarity: A design system origin story

21. Jina Anne from Clarity: A design system origin story

Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Jina and Chris discuss the inception of design tokens and Theo during Jina’s time at Salesforce, the correlation between design systems and community building,...

21 Loka 202042min

20. Rick Rodriguez from Walmart Labs: Creating design systems that scale

20. Rick Rodriguez from Walmart Labs: Creating design systems that scale

Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Rick and Chris discuss deputizing evangelists to drive adoption and reduce fragmentation, contribution models and thinking about the areas to own vs. areas to ...

29 Syys 202041min

19. Morgane Peng from Societe Generale: The right level of complexity for the right people

19. Morgane Peng from Societe Generale: The right level of complexity for the right people

Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Morgane and Chris discuss threading design into the fabric of how business works, capturing a wide range of complexity needs within your design system, moving ...

1 Syys 202038min

18. Jason Lengstorf from Netlify: Failure, finding your way, and helping others adopt a new way of working

18. Jason Lengstorf from Netlify: Failure, finding your way, and helping others adopt a new way of working

Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Jason Lengstorf and Chris discuss failure, self-doubt, and ultimately finding your way before switching gears and getting into designs systems, communicating t...

19 Elo 202043min

17. Varun Vachar from Rangle: The design graph and computational design

17. Varun Vachar from Rangle: The design graph and computational design

Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Varun Vachar and Chris discuss the “design graph,” creating choice in governance models, building a foundation of tools when setting up new systems, and using ...

6 Elo 202028min

16. Adam Argyle from Google: Making your design system freeing vs. constraining

16. Adam Argyle from Google: Making your design system freeing vs. constraining

Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Adam Argyle and Chris venture into “spicy opinion” territory and discuss when design systems are freeing vs. constraining, creating appropriate “offramps” for ...

8 Heinä 202057min