Team Playbooks
Leading collaboration happens by accident rarely even in one scenario. Under Team Playbooks, action-oriented articles and frameworks help teams to improve workflows, decision making, and cross-functional communication. Sprint planning should be productive with clear roles and responsibilities to make these playbooks useful for immediate application by teams.
The key areas covered include:
- Running effective sprint planning and retrospective sessions
- Defining clear roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes
- Streamlining communication between design, engineering, and product teams
- Building a culture of constructive feedback
- Fostering psychological safety and trust within teams
- Aligning goals and priorities across departments
In addition, teams will find notes on building a culture of feedback, psychological safety, and objective alignment across design, engineering, and product management. We share firsthand stories and proven techniques that enable teams to sidestep common pitfalls for more efficient collaboration.
Design Systems 101
Design systems are at the heart of scalable, consistent, and maintainable product development. The Design Systems 101 area assist our teams in understanding how to truly build, properly maintain, and evolve these systems. Articles cover everything from how to define its components, document usage guidelines, and even incorporate the system into engineering workflows.
Whether a team is developing its first design system or scaling an existing one to accommodate many products, the resources help understand best practices and lessons from those who have already done this. Readers will learn balancing flexibility with consistency, keeping design systems aligned to product goals, and adopting them across the teams.
Voices of Makers
It is value for money to learn from others' experiences. Voices of Makers contains interviews with designers, engineers, and product leads who describe how they collaborate, work through problems, and approach product development. These interviews explore the human side of creating digital products, the difficulties, breakthroughs, and habits that make teams successful.
You will hear stories about navigating team dynamics, trying new tools, and building cultures that value openness and trust. Connecting with these voices will inspire professionals with new perspectives, ideas, and lessons to be applied in their own teams.
Resources
Collaborative tools ease the creation process for teams. From meeting agendas, templates for design systems, code libraries, automation workflow, and more, our Resources section provides templates, guides, and open-source tools that assist teams at every product development stage. With the variety of resources, time is saved, and the workday is less hectic.
Ready-to-use resources help teams focus less on shoring up issues and more on grinding out great products. Contributors even offer tips on modifying the resources in order to fit their unique team context, encouraging experimentation and constant refinement.
Collaboration Tips and Best Practices
Even with the right tools and frameworks, effective teamwork depends on practical habits and shared practices. This section highlights actionable tips for designers, developers, and product managers to improve daily collaboration. From setting clear agendas and documenting decisions to establishing regular check-ins and asynchronous communication routines, small practices can prevent misunderstandings and keep teams aligned.
Teams also learn how to balance flexibility with accountability, manage handoffs between design and engineering, and cultivate a culture of curiosity and learning. These practices help teams work smarter, reduce friction, and maintain focus on delivering impactful products.
Building Better Products Together
As a hub, this community is for teams trying to improve the way they work together. By enriching culture, communication, design systems, and practical tools, it inspires and informs designers, product people, and developers on working more successfully. If you are leading a small startup team or working across several departments in a large enterprise, the shared insights here will help build environments where the products and teams flourish.