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Polaris: Data-Driven Design Decisions

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Polaris: Data-Driven Design Decisions
Tl;dr

This talk is about how to audit your products, how to create a dashboard to track your design system's adoption, and how to use data to tell a story and build consensus around design decisions.

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I had the pleasure to see this talk live at the NordicJS conference, and I was amazed 🫶
It is the kind of talk you need to see in a conference and feel motivated to get back to work and build more amazing things.

In this talk, Yuraima Estevez and Lo Kim from Shopify discuss how they use data to make decisions about their design system, Polaris. They cover how they track the adoption of Polaris in the Shopify admin, how they use data to decide which projects to work on and prioritize, and how they use to craft a data-driven story and build consensus around design decisions.

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Aha! moment, when the Polaris team presented how they performed a visual audit in the admin panel

Overall, this video is an excellent resource for anyone interested in leveraging data to drive design system decisions. Shopify's experience demonstrates the effectiveness of data-driven approaches in optimizing design systems and achieving organizational goals.

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