170 | Formalizing Design with Gabrielle Mérite and Alan Wilson

Data Stories

Data design systems and styleguides are currently a huge trend in the data design world. Moritz is joined by Gabrielle Mérite and Alan Wilson and together we exchange experiences in this emerging space, from designing dataviz components as part of Adobe Spectrum, the styleguide for Deloitte’s Insights Magazine or the WHO Data Design Language. Gabriele also wrote about adding touches of ethical guidance in guidelines in one of her recent newsletters. Enjoy!

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Κεφάλαια

1. Welcome back to Data Stories! (00:00:27)

2. Today's topic: Formalizing design (00:01:04)

3. Our podcast is listener-supported, please consider making a donation! (00:01:30)

https://www.patreon.com/datastories

4. Our guest: Gabrielle Mérite (00:02:35)

https://www.gabriellemerite.com/

5. Our guest: Alan Wilson (00:03:11)

https://adobe.design/stories/our-people/profile/alan-wilson

6. WHO Data Design Language (00:03:42)

https://truth-and-beauty.net/projects/who

7. Goals and Benefits of Data Design styleguides, design systems etc (00:04:56)

8. Terminology (00:09:53)

9. Adobe Spectrum (00:18:00)

https://spectrum.adobe.com

10. Deloitte Insights (00:19:11)

https://www.pentagram.com/work/deloitte-insights?rel=discipline&rel-id=16

11. Design process (00:22:06)

12. Design tokens (00:32:11)

https://spectrum.adobe.com/page/design-tokens/

13. Lifecycle, how to keep things going after version 1 (00:33:27)

14. Lessons learnt (00:48:07)

15. Is design becoming too boring? (00:54:08)

16. Get in touch with us and support us on Patreon (01:01:53)

https://www.patreon.com/datastories