Articles - Amy Hupe

I don’t spend much time in the middle ground.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself getting stuck from time-to-time, unable to move forward with a piece of writing or a presentation.

When I was 7, I was in a car accident with my Dad.

I have a list of things to try when I’m feeling anxious.

Be mindful.

Last week I watched Jennie Yip’s talk, Reimagining the Atlassian Design Systems, from Figma’s Schema 2021 conference.

I'm someone who likes to plan my emergency escape routes.

When people talk about design system documentation, they often mean: values for design foundations, like colours, spacing and layouts component specification, like size, spacing and behaviour the system’s information architecture - how things are categori…

I co-authored this post with Caroline Jarrett Long pages of content can seem daunting, so to make them look shorter, designers and developers often reach for things that hide some of the content, such as accordions, tabs, carousels or a “reveal” widget.

My background is in content design, and most of my career has been focused on that.

In January last year, I took part in Veganuary—a campaign which encourages people to eat vegan for a whole month.

Last Wednesday I spoke at a Zeroheight design systems webinar with Josh Clark and Michael Haggerty-Villa.

A house at the end of my road is undergoing some construction.

I’ve been spending way too much time on my phone in general, and on social media in particular.

My favourite of the government design principles is number 10: Make things open, it makes things better.

I wrote before about why design system teams need content designers and what happens when they don’t include one.

I’m taking part in National Blog Posting Month, or “NaBloPoMo”, for short.

Although often viewed primarily as vectors for visual design and code, design systems include a whole lot of content.

I’m not sure what triggered my latest bout of anxiety and depression.

From January to May 2020, I contracted as Product Manager for the design system at Babylon Health.

It’s been just over half a year since I moved from content design into product management.

Over the years, internal tools and services have suffered from a real lack of user-centred design.

Let me paint you a picture.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about supporting contribution to design systems.

On 6 August 2019, I launched an experiment called 10 More Blog Posts.

I’m a Senior Content Designer at the Government Digital Service (GDS).

As someone who blogs sometimes about my work, I often find myself talking to peers and colleagues who tell me they’d like to do the same but—for various reasons—they don’t feel they can.

Inclusive communication lets people access and understand it, and feel safe and empowered to respond.

On Thursday, I read a brilliant blog post about Barnardo’s design system.

Earlier this week, I took to Twitter to ask a question.

I’ve found myself talking about anxiety recently with a few people who didn’t know I suffer with it.

I saw a job advert recently — an organisation was hiring people for its new design system team.