Design Systems Podcast

42. Neva Corbo-Hudak and Rogin Farrer from Wayfair: The long evolution of a web design system

March 14, 2022 Knapsack
42. Neva Corbo-Hudak and Rogin Farrer from Wayfair: The long evolution of a web design system
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Design Systems Podcast
42. Neva Corbo-Hudak and Rogin Farrer from Wayfair: The long evolution of a web design system
Mar 14, 2022
Knapsack

Wayfair, the ubiquitous online retailer, is more than just wayfair.com: the company owns Perigold, Joss & Main, and Birch Lane. Neva, Rogin, and Chris discuss how Wayfair united three disparate design systems into one; the gradual process of building a holistic design system team; achieving cross-functional design system adoption, and the merits of overthinking.

Guests: Neva Corbo-Hudak is the Product Design Lead at Wayfair. She’s a multidisciplinary designer passionate about crafting user-centered experiences. She is invigorated by the challenge of making complex information understandable, and particularly excited by multifaceted design projects that require a high level of problem solving. 

You can find Neva on Twitter as @nevach_tweets, and on LinkedIn.

Rogin Farrer is the Staff Engineer at Wayfair. He’s a pattern library maintainer of Wayfair's design systems with a focus on enterprise software. Builds scalable React UI components with accessibility in mind. 

You can find Rogin at his personal website, on Twitter as @roginfarrer, and on LinkedIn.

Host: Chris Strahl is co-founder and CEO of Knapsack, host of @TheDSPod, DnD DM, and occasional river guide. You can find Chris on Twitter as @chrisstrahl and on LinkedIn.

Sponsor: Knapsack is a design system platform rooted in code for shipping consistent apps in half the time. Design once, build once, use everywhere. Learn more at knapsack.cloud.

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Show Notes

Wayfair, the ubiquitous online retailer, is more than just wayfair.com: the company owns Perigold, Joss & Main, and Birch Lane. Neva, Rogin, and Chris discuss how Wayfair united three disparate design systems into one; the gradual process of building a holistic design system team; achieving cross-functional design system adoption, and the merits of overthinking.

Guests: Neva Corbo-Hudak is the Product Design Lead at Wayfair. She’s a multidisciplinary designer passionate about crafting user-centered experiences. She is invigorated by the challenge of making complex information understandable, and particularly excited by multifaceted design projects that require a high level of problem solving. 

You can find Neva on Twitter as @nevach_tweets, and on LinkedIn.

Rogin Farrer is the Staff Engineer at Wayfair. He’s a pattern library maintainer of Wayfair's design systems with a focus on enterprise software. Builds scalable React UI components with accessibility in mind. 

You can find Rogin at his personal website, on Twitter as @roginfarrer, and on LinkedIn.

Host: Chris Strahl is co-founder and CEO of Knapsack, host of @TheDSPod, DnD DM, and occasional river guide. You can find Chris on Twitter as @chrisstrahl and on LinkedIn.

Sponsor: Knapsack is a design system platform rooted in code for shipping consistent apps in half the time. Design once, build once, use everywhere. Learn more at knapsack.cloud.

View the transcript for this episode.