Removing Biases and Designing For Your User with Alexis Morin, Design System Lead

The Dev Morning Show (At Night)

This episode features an interview with Alexis Morin, a Design System Lead. Alexis has over 15 years of experience collaborating with teams and organizations to create and ship digital experiences, working with brands like Google, Meta, and Audi.

In this episode, Cassidy and Zach sit down with Alexis to discuss what a design system is, removing biases in your work, and over-optimizing Duolingo experience points.

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:32): What Alexis is working on right now

(03:22): What Alexis’ day-to-day looks like

(08:47): What tools Alexis uses

(09:46): How Alexis got into the industry

(12:48): Rapid Fire Questions

(24:34): Random Segment Generator

(31:20): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“I always try to keep in mind, and this is a design rule, that the people who will be using the thing that you're making, it's probably not you. A lot of the times, we want to build something and the intent is, ‘This is how I would do it.’ But at the end of the day, that's rarely the case. It's important to just keep that in mind and sometimes you just exercise a little bit of empathy, put some empathy into your work. And that can go a long way into removing some biases that we all have.” – Alexis Morin

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