Over the years, internal tools and services have suffered from a real lack of user-centred design.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Let me paint you a picture.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about supporting contribution to design systems.| Articles - Amy Hupe
On 6 August 2019, I launched an experiment called 10 More Blog Posts.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I’m a Senior Content Designer at the Government Digital Service (GDS). I work on the Design System team, who built and maintains the GOV.UK Design System.| Articles - Amy Hupe
As someone who blogs sometimes about my work, I often find myself talking to peers and colleagues who tell me they’d like to do the same but—for various reasons—they don’t feel they can.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Inclusive communication lets people access and understand it, and feel safe and empowered to respond. It's being clear, honest, and mindful of the impact what we’re saying might have on those who encounter it.| Articles - Amy Hupe
On Thursday, I read a brilliant blog post about Barnardo’s design system.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Earlier this week, I took to Twitter to ask a question. I wanted to know more about the different approaches people take to handling the copy (words) in design system examples.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I’ve found myself talking about anxiety recently with a few people who didn’t know I suffer with it.| Articles - Amy Hupe
4 lessons I learned from working with a service designer on the GOV.UK Design System| Amyhupe.co.uk
Never in my life have I been so violently confronted by my brokenness than in the first year of separating from my husband in early 2023.| Articles - Amy Hupe
The law of conservation of energy says that, within a closed system, energy cannot be created or destroyed: only converted from one form of energy to another.| Articles - Amy Hupe
“Where are we going?” I ask you.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I am a perfectionist.| Articles - Amy Hupe
“Pack your bags!” the email told me.| Articles - Amy Hupe
_This post is based on a talk I gave at this year's Smashing Conf in Freiburg, I'll add a link to the talk once it's available.| Articles - Amy Hupe
As an independent consultant, I find myself in the position of “new girl” more than most. As a result, I’ve learned a few things about how to hit the ground running.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I am burnt out.| Articles - Amy Hupe
For the third year running, I’m taking part in National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo for short).| Articles - Amy Hupe
This blog post is based on a talk I did at Converge Manchester 2023 - I will add a link to the talk when it's ready. In the meantime, you may want to check out Lauren Loprete's fantastic talk on design systems and burnout from Clarity, which is part of what inspired this one.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Every month I run a free Zoom session called Design Systems Open Space.| Articles - Amy Hupe
For those of you who’ve been fortunate enough to miss my incessant social media posting on the matter, I run a monthly Zoom session called Design Systems Open Space.| Articles - Amy Hupe
National Blog Posting Month - affectionately known as NaBloPoMo - is a challenge in which participants write a blog post every day throughout November.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I wrote down a quote recently from Hayley Hughes’ talk at Clarity 2022.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Working - as I do - at the intersection of content design and design systems, I’m often thinking about ways of improving design system documentation.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I imagine a hierarchy of the painful scenarios around the issue of having children, and I consider where it’s fair to place myself, and I always conclude it’s somewhere near the bottom.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Every now and then I run into the question of whether design systems should document and distribute components and patterns that we don’t really want system users to use. These are sometimes referred to as “anti-patterns”.| Articles - Amy Hupe
As the design systems space has matured, our understanding of what they entail and how to approach the work has naturally converged.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Periodically and inconsistently - but roughly once a month - I run a free Zoom session called Design Systems Open Space.| Articles - Amy Hupe
What does coffee mean to you?| Articles - Amy Hupe
Dear male ego,| Articles - Amy Hupe
One of the most common promises we make when making an investment case for design systems is that they’ll reduce or completely eradicate duplication of effort.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Last week I headed to the coast for my first time at FF Conf - an annual web conference held in Brighton.| Articles - Amy Hupe
This post is based on my recent talk, Building conscious design systems, which I gave at WDC and GOV Design Systems Day.| Articles - Amy Hupe
At the time of writing this, many people are setting up Mastodon accounts - an open source social media platform - in response to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.| Articles - Amy Hupe
End of list.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Jargon is defined as “special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand”.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Over the past few years, there’s been a significant shift in the way I think about the work of creating design systems.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Recently, I’ve noticed an uptick on my Twitter timeline of people stating, with frustration, that a Figma library is not a design system.| Articles - Amy Hupe
It’s OK to…| Articles - Amy Hupe
On Wednesday and Thursday this week, I went to Leading Design conference at The Barbican in London.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Last year, I worked on a service designed to help children and young people find support for their mental health.| Articles - Amy Hupe
It’s becoming increasingly unfashionable to cite “consistency” as a goal for design systems.| Articles - Amy Hupe
For the second year in a row, I’ve decided to take part in National Blog Posting Month, or “NaBloPoMo”, for short.| Articles - Amy Hupe
This article is based on a talk I delivered at Converge London 2022 - here's the video in case you'd prefer to watch it.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I co-authored this post with Caroline Jarrett and | Articles - Amy Hupe
One of the most common pieces of feedback I give to design system teams about their documentation is this: write using the active voice.| Articles - Amy Hupe
This post is based on my recent talk, Design Systems for Humans, from this year’s UX London. I’ll add a link to the recording once it’s available.| Articles - Amy Hupe
When we talk about how to incentivise design system contribution, something that comes up in almost every discussion is accreditation: Can we recognise design system contributors with a public acknowledgement of their work on a component or pattern? Or can we award individuals a contributor “status”, by naming them in design system documentation, putting their picture in a digital wall of fame, or sending them a sticker?| Articles - Amy Hupe
I co-authored this post with Caroline Jarrett and | Articles - Amy Hupe
I’m now working on my second multi-brand design system and am again facing the challenge of how to structure, write and present documentation for 3 different brands.| Articles - Amy Hupe
So here we are for the final installment of National Blog Posting Month 2021 (NaBloPoMo).| Articles - Amy Hupe
In 1941, my grandmother—my Dad’s Mum—was at home celebrating her daughter Joanna’s 2nd birthday. In the middle of the festivities, a German fighter plane dropped a bomb on the house. Joanna was killed instantly and my grandmother was badly injured, narrowly missing a leg amputation.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I’ve been thinking lately about how a lot of anxiety-management advice can feel quite vague. When people say things like “learn to accept your feelings”, I can grasp that in theory but struggle to know what it means in practice.| Articles - Amy Hupe
A couple of years ago I was walking through London with 2 of my friends.| Articles - Amy Hupe
It’s just that:| Articles - Amy Hupe
I don’t spend much time in the middle ground.| Articles - Amy Hupe
If you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself getting stuck from time-to-time, unable to move forward with a piece of writing or a presentation.| Articles - Amy Hupe
When I was 7, I was in a car accident with my Dad. We were driving along the motorway to my uncle’s place, to help him move house. It was in January, back when we still had seasons, and it was a freezing day.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I have a list of things to try when I’m feeling anxious. Things like:| Articles - Amy Hupe
Be mindful. Focus on the present. Ask yourself if this problem will matter in 5 years’ time. Think back over your day and write down 5 good things that happened. Remind yourself you’ve been here before and you got through it. Tell yourself this will pass. Do all of this while staying present.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Last week I watched Jennie Yip’s talk, Reimagining the Atlassian Design Systems, from Figma’s Schema 2021 conference.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I'm someone who likes to plan my emergency escape routes. If I’m going into a situation I’m uncomfortable with, I like to know how I’ll get out of it if I need to.| Articles - Amy Hupe
When people talk about design system documentation, they often mean:| Articles - Amy Hupe
My background is in content design, and most of my career has been focused on that.| Articles - Amy Hupe
In January last year, I took part in Veganuary—a campaign which encourages people to eat vegan for a whole month.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Last Wednesday I spoke at a Zeroheight design systems webinar with Josh Clark and Michael Haggerty-Villa.| Articles - Amy Hupe
A house at the end of my road is undergoing some construction.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I’ve been spending way too much time on my phone in general, and on social media in particular. It’s affecting my mood, wellbeing, concentration and memory to an extent that’s starting to scare me.| Articles - Amy Hupe
My favourite of the government design principles is number 10: Make things open, it makes things better.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I wrote before about why design system teams need content designers and what happens when they don’t include one.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I’m taking part in National Blog Posting Month, or “NaBloPoMo”, for short.| Articles - Amy Hupe
Although often viewed primarily as vectors for visual design and code, design systems include a whole lot of content.| Articles - Amy Hupe
I’m not sure what triggered my latest bout of anxiety and depression.| Articles - Amy Hupe
From January to May 2020, I contracted as Product Manager for the design system at Babylon Health. You can read about setting up the Babylon Health design system in this post by Jack Roles.| Articles - Amy Hupe
What I've learned in my first half a year after switching from content design to product management.| Amyhupe.co.uk
why using content-hiding interactions to shorten a page creates problems for users, and what to do instead.| Amyhupe.co.uk
My write up of the talks from ffconf 2023.| Amyhupe.co.uk
Why we need to retire the racist term we use to describe bad design patterns, and what to use instead.| Amyhupe.co.uk