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Best Podcast Finalist

On Theme: Design Systems in Depth

Elyse Holladay

About the Podcast

On Theme: Design Systems in Depth explores how design systems are built, maintained, and made impactful for product teams. Featuring insightful conversations with leading practitioners, it goes beyond components and tokens to address strategy, leadership, and forward-looking industry shifts shaping the success of design systems today.

Why it's valuable

The podcast fills a gap in design systems content by focusing on strategic, leadership-level conversations. With guests from globally recognized companies and respected industry voices, it delivers actionable insights on challenges such as AI, organizational buy-in, and scaling systems—helping practitioners drive meaningful change and long-term success within their teams.

Highlight

"Simply listening to it is an education in itself."

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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