A short spoken excerpt emphasizing the need for open-mindedness in design systems: senior designers and engineers are frequently surprised by each other’s tools and workflows (e.g., how Figma is used or how web pages are built). The speaker argues that avoiding assumptions about teammates’ processes is essential for healthy design-system work.
All of our teams that we work with are very senior level designers, very senior level engineers. And every time there is some designer that goes like, I had no idea. That's how you build a web page, you know, or an engineer that's like, that's how Figma works. Like, it's mind blowing to them and it's like it opens their minds. And I think that's the thing that you need for design systems. You need like an open mind. And you can't have an open mind if you're assuming how your teammates work. And you're totally wrong about it. You know, some engineers have never seen a designer actually work in figma.
