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Design System Audit | Improve product velocity and alignment – Thinkmill

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Thinkmill @thinkmill.com.au · 12d

Like any other product, design systems need testing and iteration.

Our Design System Audit help your team see whether your system is accelerating delivery, or quietly slowing it down.

💡 Find out more: www.thinkmill.com.au/services/des...

#DesignSystems

Understand how your design system supports – or slows – product delivery. Thinkmill’s Design System Audits reveal gaps between design and engineering, helping teams align, scale, and deliver faster wi...

www.thinkmill.com.au

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Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · 12d

I also cross-post my articles on Medium, if that's more your thing. Check out the article here:

murphytrueman.medium.com/your-tokens-...

Your tokens have become infrastructure

How to build systems that survive scale, governance, and AI

murphytrueman.medium.com

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · 12d

If changing a token feels scary, you’ve already built infrastructure.

My latest post breaks down what that means – and how to make it safe again.

Your tokens have become infrastructure →
open.substack.com/pub/murphytr...

Your tokens have become infrastructure

How to build systems that survive scale, governance, and AI

Accessibility Audit | Unlock reach and reduce compliance risk – Thinkmill

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · 18d

Love seeing this shared. Accessibility is most powerful when it’s treated as part of how we build, not what we fix after.

Thinkmill @thinkmill.com.au · 18d

Accessibility isn’t just about compliance.

It’s about making products work for everyone and everything, with fixes that teams can actually maintain.

Take your first step towards better A11y with our new offering: Accessibility Audits

👉 www.thinkmill.com.au/services/acc...

Identify accessibility risks and opportunities across your product ecosystem. Thinkmill’s accessibility audits help you reduce risk, align with WCAG and EAA standards, and deliver better experiences f...

www.thinkmill.com.au

Accessibility Audit | Unlock reach and reduce compliance risk – Thinkmill

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · 20d

Accessibility problems are often system problems. Fixing them means understanding where they start – in patterns, components, and process.

This is how we help teams make accessibility scale at @thinkmill.com.au

If that’s what you’re aiming for, let’s talk about how to get there 🫶

Thinkmill @thinkmill.com.au · 20d

Most accessibility audits stop at what’s broken – not why, or where to fix it.

Our Accessibility Audits give practical guidance tied to your environment – code, components, and patterns – so you can fix problems once, at their core.

💡Find out more
www.thinkmill.com.au/services/acc...

Identify accessibility risks and opportunities across your product ecosystem. Thinkmill’s accessibility audits help you reduce risk, align with WCAG and EAA standards, and deliver better experiences f...

www.thinkmill.com.au

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Oliver Lindberg @oliverlindberg.com · 27d

Design tokens promised to simplify design systems, but for many teams, they've become the biggest source of complexity instead.

Check out "When design tokens become technical debt" by @murphytrueman.bsky.social, now on the @zeroheight.com blog: zeroheight.com/blog/when-de...

An illustration of a literal warning sign

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Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · 28d

Design tokens promised to simplify your design system. For many teams, they've become the biggest source of complexity instead.

Check out my latest piece for @zeroheight.com on how this happens, and what you can do about it: zeroheight.com/blog/when-de...

When design tokens become technical debt - zeroheight

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Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Aug 17

Things are really starting to come together 🥹

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Aug 14

For sure! It’s hard to separate from the passion and see it objectively/from the other side.

We're still terrible at the people parts

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Aug 14

The teams with highest adoption rates aren't necessarily building the best components. They're building the clearest processes for collaboration.

🔗 I explored this idea further in my latest article:
open.substack.com/pub/murphytr...

Why teams with perfect systems still build around them instead

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Aug 1

Praying for good weather so I can work on my car over the weekend 😩

I’m dying for some garage time.

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is so great ❤️

I'm a huge people pleaser – which similarly ends with me filling everyone's cup before my own.

Not being able to fix EVERY problem leads to me giving more & more, but never feeling like it's enough. Even when operating at 190%.

Your article will change how I think about that.

From component library to product engine

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'd love to! blog.murphytrueman.com

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eSBe @sb2749.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Most systems start with components.
The strategic ones grow into infrastructure.

My latest article explores the shift toward systems that actually scale product decisions, not just pixels.

👇 Check it out below:
open.substack.com/pub/murphytr...

How design systems evolve to drive strategy and scale business intent

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Jul 25

Some of the most useful early conversations I’ve had on projects came from something deceptively simple: mapping out the app’s routes, together.

No wireframes. No flows. Just: what are the pages, and what happens on them?

It’s a simple move that sets the tone for everything that follows.

Thinkmill @thinkmill.com.au · Jul 24

Before wireframes. Before prototypes. Before tickets.
We start with Route Mapping – our go-to method for aligning teams early by co-designing structure as a shared UX blueprint.

Learn how in our open playbook 📖
www.thinkmill.com.au/method/playb...

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Jul 17

Some of the best product calls I’ve ever made started with something someone almost didn’t say.

Design ethnography helps you notice the stuff that matters, but hides in plain sight.

Great write-up from the team at @thinkmill.com.au 💡

Thinkmill @thinkmill.com.au · Jul 17

Sometimes the biggest insight isn’t in the data – it’s in what someone says off-hand while trying to get a task done.

Design Ethnography helps us tune into context, habits, and friction as they surface.

We walk through it in our Playbook 👇
www.thinkmill.com.au/method/playb...

What CEOs, research, and your own workflow are already telling you about design’s AI future

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Jul 14

AI isn’t just in your toolbox, it’s in the org chart.

Designers aren’t being replaced, but the role is getting rewritten in real time.

This is what I’m seeing from inside the work.

open.substack.com/pub/murphytr...

#Design #AI #Product

Signals from the top

What a car taught me about control, collapse, and creative repair

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Jul 11

One thing I love about working at @thinkmill.com.au is that frameworks like DACI aren’t just theory – we actually use them, tweak them and make them part of how we move fast and thoughtfully.

Shoutout to the team for continuing to turn complex challenges into repeatable practices 🫶

Thinkmill @thinkmill.com.au · Jul 11

Some decisions feel impossible to land.
Too many voices, conflicting priorities.

That’s when we reach for DACI – a decision-making framework we picked up from working with Atlassian.

It’s part of our Playbook 👇
www.thinkmill.com.au/method/playb...

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Jun 30

Rebuilding a 180SX taught me more about design, legacy, and systems than I expected.

🛠 New post:
open.substack.com/pub/murphytr...

How rebuilding a Nissan 180SX changed everything I thought I knew about design

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Jun 27

A great example of the kind of work we love at @thinkmill.com.au – long-term, cross-functional, and collaborative.

Design systems, infra, and team support with AnywhereWorks.

👉 Read the full case study here: thinkmill.com.au/work/anywher...

Murphy Trueman @murphytrueman.bsky.social · Jun 21

Is it?! I've recently started posting and building some subscribers 🙃
Curious where people are hanging out otherwise.