It’s time for another new episode of #SystemsOfHarm and this week’s very special guest is… 🥁… ME!

In a self-indulgent twist, I recruited Luke Murphy to play host this week and we chatted about design systems and big life events.

How well do our current systems cater to people navigating difficult life changes? What happens when digital services no longer make space for your life situation, and what’s the human impact of that?

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Design systems and big life events with Amy Hupe (featuring special guest host Luke Murphy)

Podcast Episode · Systems of Harm · 22/10/2025 · 58m

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Happy #SystemsOfHarm podcast day to all who celebrate 🥳

Today’s guest is author of best-selling book, Good Services, and co-founder and Director of The School of Good Services, Lou Downe.

Lou and I chat about how design systems fit into wider organisational, social and political systems when it comes to gender and the inclusion (or exclusion) of trans people.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts

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Design systems and gender with Lou Downe

Podcast Episode · Systems of Harm · 15/10/2025 · 56m

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Another brand new episode of #SystemsOfHarm ready for your eardrums.

In today’s episode, I chat to accessibility specialist, founder of TetraLogical and chair of the W3C board of directors, @tink about how design sysems can help us create more accessible user experiences, how to advocate for our disabled product users, and whether AI will help or hinder us.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts 👇🏻

Apple: https://apple.co/4nAMX6K
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Design systems and accessibility with Léonie Watson

Podcast Episode · Systems of Harm · 08/10/2025 · 52m

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We’re back baby!

Episode 1 of the second series of #SystemsOfHarm just dropped, and we’re kicking things off with design systems & accessibility specialist and all-round legend, Geri Reid

In today’s episode, Geri and I embark on a good old-fashioned chinwag about design systems and activism.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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Apple: https://apple.co/42Zhx1s

#DesignSystems #A11y #Accessibility

The past week I have mainlined the #SystemsOfHarm podcast by @Amy_Hupe and my word it's so good it deserves an Award for best podcast.
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Systems of Harm

Design systems are the systems of tools, processes and practices that we use to create digital products, like websites and applications. But can design systems play a role in perpetuating systemic harm? Can they do anything to mitigate it?

Systems of Harm

The final episode of #SystemsOfHarm is now live 🥲

To wrap up, I spoke to the awesome Sheryl Cababa, author of Closing the Loop: Systems Thinking for Designers.

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Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3X1XwU2

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Sheryl shares tools for approaching and applying systems thinking to our design work. We talked about how to work with the power we have to make meaningful changes, no matter where we sit.

‎Systems of Harm: Applying systems thinking to our design with Sheryl Cababa on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Systems of Harm, Ep Applying systems thinking to our design with Sheryl Cababa - 19 Jun 2023

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It’s #SystemsOfHarm podcast drop time 🎤

This week’s episode features the wonderful Imran Afzal and I talking about design systems and racism.

Every design system team I’ve worked with has been all or mostly white, so this feels like a really important listen.

#DesignSystems #UXDesign #InclusiveDesign

Apple: https://apple.co/3Ja4DE8

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3X1XwU2

RSS: https://bit.ly/43gtLkB

‎Systems of Harm: Design systems and racism with Imran Afzal on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Systems of Harm, Ep Design systems and racism with Imran Afzal - 12 Jun 2023

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This week’s episode of #SystemsOfHarm podcast is now live 📣

In this episode I’m chatting to Fred Warburton, Design Systems Manager at Springer Nature, and former #A11y lead at Babylon about design systems and accessibility.

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Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42ulmbY

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Fred and I first met on the Babylon Health design system team back in 2020...

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‎Systems of Harm: Design systems and accessibility with Fred Warburton on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Systems of Harm, Ep Design systems and accessibility with Fred Warburton - 5 Jun 2023

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New episode of #SystemsOfHarm just dropped 🎉

This week I’m talking to @LauraParkerUX about design systems and dyscalculia - a persistent difficulty in understanding numbers.

Apple: https://apple.co/3C3d0gY

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3oDbCOQ

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Around 6% of the population has dyscalculia, affecting their ability to do tasks like tell the time, deal with financial matters, and transpose reference numbers.

#dyscalculia #InclusiveDesign #DesignSystems #UXDesign #A11y

‎Systems of Harm: Design systems and dyscalculia with Laura Parker on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Systems of Harm, Ep Design systems and dyscalculia with Laura Parker - 30 May 2023

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Episode 2 of #SystemsOfHarm is live 🎉

In this @lurkmoophy and I talk trans-exclusion and design systems. We talk about Luke’s experience of being non-binary, masking, and how design systems can scale trans-exclusion and erasure, if we’re not careful.

Apple: https://apple.co/3M6G8Z1
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3IvoIoc
RSS: https://bit.ly/3pZUXW1

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‎Systems of Harm: Design systems and cognitive bias with David Dylan Thomas on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Systems of Harm, Ep Design systems and cognitive bias with David Dylan Thomas - 10 May 2023

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