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6 Design System Books No One's Talking About But Should Be #designsystems #danmallteaches #shorts

19 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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A short recommendation video by Dan Mall listing six books relevant to design systems that the speaker believes deserve more attention. The six titles address governance (Managing Chaos), organizational culture change (Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture), system boundaries (How Systems Form and How Systems Break), communicating vision (The Vision Driven Leader), user-centered engagement (Badass), and personal knowledge management/productivity (Building a Second Brain). The clip ends with a like-and-subscribe call to action.

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Want to impress all your design system friends, here are the six design system books that no one's talking about but should be Managing Chaos by Lisa Welchman tackles one of the most unruly topics when it comes to design systems, and that is the idea of governance. Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture based on the Competing Values Framework by Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn helps you address the most important thing in the world of design systems, which is the idea of culture change. How Systems form and How Systems Break by Chang H. Ren is one of the few books that tackles the edges and the boundaries of the systems that we create. The Vision Driven Leader by Michael Hyatt shows us how and when to communicate to all of the people that are involved in our design system journey. Badass by Kathy Sierra helps us keep our users at the forefront. Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte shows us how to build a system that does the heavy lifting for you. If you like this video, please don't forget to like it and subscribe. Thanks for watching.