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    #7: Why Don't Style Guides Ever Work?

    August 23rd, 2016 · 48 minutes

    This week's special guest is Stanely Wood, design director at Spotify. We talk about how to scale design as companies grow, what it takes to create consistent experiences, and how style guides never work except when they do.

    Guest Starring: Stanley Wood

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    Links and Show Notes

    Stanley Wood: Design Doesn’t Scale
    Introducing Design Systems Ops at Salesforce
    Nathan Curtis: A Design System isn’t a Project. It’s a Product, Serving Products
    Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language
    Apple's iOS Human Interface Guidelines
    Material design - Google design guidelines
    The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White

    William Strunk Jr.

    Adobe Design Rebrand on Behance
    Stanley Wood (@hellostanley) on Twitter