Content Strategy Interviews

Rebekah Wolf Content has always been a key element of any design system, but content designers have only recently become part of these system teams. It's still early days, but the role of content in design systems is evolving rapidly. Rebekah Wolf has been part of that evolution through her work as a content designer on Microsoft's Fluent design system. She has also built a professional community around the subject with the Design System Content Club Slack that she founded and facilitates. We talked about: the Design System Content Club community Slack that she facilitates her take on the state of the discipline of content in design systems how to get design system leaders to invest in content her content-design work on Microsoft's design system the need to educate executive sponsors of design systems the value of content how to deal with the challenges of inheriting design-system content that was created without a content designer's help the benefits of including guidance elements like deci