Building Trust: Designing Product Ecosystems in the Age of AI
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Digital products no longer exist as standalone apps. They live inside complex ecosystems of interfaces, AI systems, legacy infrastructure, and workflows that a...
10 Mar 33min
Inside the Alaska–Hawaiian Merger: Shipping a Multi-Brand Experience in 10 Months
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. The Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines merger came with physical and regulatory deadlines that dictated an inflexible 10-month delivery window for digital a...
10 Feb 41min
Designing the Learning Loop: Context, AI, and Compound Systems
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. In the first episode of Patterns, Chris Strahl sits down with Dave Brown, design leader at Qualtrics, to explore what modern systems thinking looks like in an ...
27 Jan 48min
DSP 139. Why the Future of Digital Production Starts With Code, Not a Canvas
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. As AI compresses the distance between idea and execution, the abstractions that once made design tools necessary are becoming points of friction. In this conve...
17 Des 202534min
DSP 138. Scaling Inclusive Design: An Accessibility Conversation with Anna Thielke
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. How do teams turn accessibility from individual effort into system wide practice? Chris talks with Anna Thielke, founder and CEO of Mantis and Company, to find...
4 Des 202524min
DSP 137. Why You Shouldn’t Aim for Perfect: Building Design Systems That Deliver Business Value with Noelle Lansford
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. If you’ve ever struggled to balance perfection with business reality, this episode is for you. In this episode of the Design Systems Podcast, Chris Strahl talk...
11 Nov 202544min
DSP 136. Are Design Systems Still for People? A Conversation with Elyse Holladay
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. In this episode, Chris Strahl talks with Elyse Holladay—staff design engineer at Color Health and host of On Theme—about the evolution of design systems and ho...
22 Jul 202545min
DSP 135. The Infrastructure Behind Digital Production: A Conversation with Steve Dodier-Lazaro
Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Design systems aren’t just a UI toolkit—they’re the backbone of digital product creation and management. In this episode, engineer and researcher Steve Dodier-...
8 Jul 202536min
