Design Systems, Diners, and Drives with Teladoc Health
Design Systems, Diners, and Drives is a new webinar series for zeroheight. It started life as a zheroes exclusive, but we wanted to open it up to more folks. Each session, we have a zeroheight customer take us through their team organization, how they organize and maintain their design systems kits, code libraries, and documentation, and most importantly, the places they love to go wherever they’re based.
This month, three members of the Teladoc Health design system team walked us through Pulse – their design system.
If you missed the talk, you view the recording below. Consider joining zheroes, our Slack community, where you can catch up on all the questions from the audience with answers from the Pulse design team!
They’re a distributed team, so we are lucky to learn about three locations today!
Evan Huntley, Sr. Manager, Product Design
Raleigh, North Carolina (via Wake Forest)
Diner: Prime Barbecue in Knightdale. Family-friendly BBQ restaurant serving the finest Texas-style BBQ. Also if you visit, you might see players from the Carolina Hurricanes (their hockey team).
Drives:
- Durham Museum of Life and Science – A cool place for families to explore.
- Boone, NC (mountains) and Topsail Beach – Two scenic and relaxing destinations only 2-3 hours from Raleigh.
- PNC Arena – where the Carolina Hurricanes play!
Jon Armstrong, Sr. Product Designer
New York, NY
Diner: Buttermilk Channel, Brooklyn – Serving chicken and waffles, amazing sundaes, great coffee, and pancakes, too!
Drives: Very few own a car and driving in NYC isn’t fun. Jon enjoys taking the Hudson Line (Metro North) from Grand Central to Croton-Harmon. It’s a peaceful ride that offers spectacular views, especially in the Fall.
Gabrielle Clarke, Product Designer II
San Francisco, CA
Diner: Gabrielle prefers bakeries and recommends Ariscault. They have great croissants and pastries. But she warns of getting there early since there’s always a line.
Drives: SF has many great day trips. She suggests cruising along the Pacific Coast Highway (California Highway 1) and stopping in Half Moon Bay. There are excellent coastal bluff views and many good stops along the way.
Teladoc Health and their design system: Pulse
About Teladoc
Teladoc Health is the global leader in whole-person virtual care—offering the technology to connect, expertise you can trust, and the power to improve health for all. They deliver solutions for primary care, mental health, chronic conditions, and in-hospital needs.
About Pulse
Pulse is a global design system across all Teladoc Health products. It serves a 45-person design org and over 40 scrum teams in 14 agile release trains (ARTs).
Special considerations for this team include:
- The healthcare field is highly regulated
- They design for a variety of devices, including TV sets
- Aligning mergers and acquisitions
- Navigating custom branding for services
- Increasing adoption across the organization
Some high-level stats:
- Design system link: Their design system isn’t public, so definitely catch the recording for a sneak peek.
- Team: Design manager, 4 product designers, 11 engineering team members (includes developers, technical program manager, and quality assurance).
- Toolset: Figma, a custom-built Figma token plug-in, zeroheight, Jira, and Storybook
For their walk-through, they covered four areas. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll hear:
- Design tokens and semantic colors – how they ensure people can easily understand how to use their color palette
- Figma file architecture – takeaways from identifying how to organize their documentation
- Component documentation – an overview of how they document
- Component governance – ways they’re managing a governance process and tools they’re using
Share your design system with the zheroes community!
Design systems can come with challenges and some incredible wins worth celebrating! We’d love to have other zeroheight users share how their team creates, manages, and maintains their design systems. The community loves learning from others and giving you high-fives for your team’s hard work. If you’re interested in sharing your Design System, please reach out to Michelle via zheroes.
Design Systems, Diners, and Drives
Design Systems, Diners, and Drives is an every-other-month series hosted especially for the zeroheight Slack community. We have special guests walk through their team’s design system, a favorite local diner, and five spots to visit if you’re ever in their area. Join the zeroheight community at: bit.ly/zheroes-signup (it’s free!)