In today's episode, Diana Mounter, who manages the design infrastructure at GitHub, helps us dive deep into a listener question about the role and expectations of a design systems manager. And we have a big round of cool things this week, including three books, an album, and a plugin.

Follow-up:

• Keaton Taylor lolled pretty hard at our dumb 311 references. It was all worth it.
• Thanks for leaving questions for us at the Design Details repo!

Interview:

• Diana Mounter manages the design infrastructure known as Primer at GitHub.
  • You can listen to Diana's previous appearances on Design Details in the following episodes:
    • 74: Itchy Feet (feat. Diana Mounter)
    • 123: Live @ Github (feat. Carolyn Zhang, Heather Phillips, Mo Woods & Diana Mounter)
    • 246: Cats & Design Systems (feat. Diana Mounter & Brent Jackson)
• agabrans asks, "What is the role of a Design Systems Manager, and what is expected of this individual?"
  • Material Design
  • Apple Human Interface Guidelines
  • Article: The 8-Point Grid by Bryn Jackson

One Cool Thing:

• Diana shared three things:
  • Bitmoji for Slack lets you "bring office chat to life with your own personal emoji"
  • "Reamde" by Neal Stephenson is "the breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game"
    • The sign in Jimmy John's reads: "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
    • Dan Brown is known for his fluffy but exciting thriller novels like "The DaVinci Code"
  • "Wallop" (YouTube playlist) is the latest album from !!!
    • Alt-J (or, more accurately, option-j) typed on an Apple keyboard results in the ∆ character
    • "Off the Grid" and "In the Grid"
• Marshall shared "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel" by Neal Stephenson, "a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds"
  • The "Bobiverse" series by Dennis E. Taylor is the story of a programmer who dies suddenly and, after being cryogenically frozen, wakes up as an AI in a vastly changed world
  • "Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson is "an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years"
• Brian shared "How to Stop Time" by Matt Haig, "a love story across the ages—and for the ages—about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live"
  • "2312" by Kim Stanley Robinson is "the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system--and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all"

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