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Best Podcast Finalist

Design System Office Hours

Davy Fung and PJ Onori

About the Podcast

Design Systems Office Hours is a conversational podcast that dives deep into the challenges and opportunities of design systems. Each episode explores topics such as governance, documentation, business value, and collaboration. The hosts provide candid discussions and practical insights, offering a relatable companion for practitioners navigating the complexities of design systems.

Why it's valuable

The podcast stands out for its honesty and depth, avoiding surface-level gloss to address real struggles in design system practice. By focusing on one topic per episode, it sparks fresh thinking, validates experiences, and provides actionable takeaways. Listeners describe it as like having a trusted peer to bounce ideas with.

Highlight

"I think every episode has been key for me over the years. It normally ends up being a topic I have faced or am currently facing, and the super candid way in which the hosts talk about them, make feel less alone in my struggles as a DS practitioner"

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Timeline

  1. Nominations will be open from Tuesday 13 May. If you have any questions about the nomination process, then check out the FAQs, or if your question isn't answered, please get in touch at community@zeroheight.com

    13 May, 2025

  2. Once the nominations are closed, we'll be collating the longlist and working through it to determine a shortlist. The shortlist will be determined by the team at zeroheight, and will be based on uniform judging criteria (which we will share in a month or two). With the shortlist creation, we aim to remove as much bias as possible and give everyone a fair chance across the board.

    22 August, 2025

  3. In September, the shortlist will be announced, including public voting! We'll notify all folks as to whether they made the shortlist. The judges will then individually judge each shortlisted entry. We'll also have public voting on each category live on the site!

    15 September, 2025

  4. Once all the judges and public votes are counted, we'll then be able to determine the winner for each category, based off a weighted compilation of votes.

    3 November, 2025

  5. In December, we'll gather the community together at an event in London to announce the winners live. We'll also be live-streaming the ceremony for those who can't make it. The live event will be invite only, but we'll offer the community a chance to apply for a ticket later in the year! We'll also post the results to the zeroheight site the day after the event.

    December 2025 (TBA)

Past Winners