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Design Systems Summits

During 2023 and 2024, I've been invited to an exclusive series of summits hosted by the fine folks of Knapsack. The first was in October, 2023 in Manhattan, held as "Design Systems in Fintech". I made a whole bunch of like-minded new friends, one of whom (Bank of America's Product Design & UX Infrastructure Lead David Müller), shared with me that he took more notes from feedback I provided than any of the presentations.

Invigored by my first participation with this group, I was invited to the follow-up "Design Systems Leadership" summit, in March 2024. Not only did I have the chance to make some amazing new friends (Donnie D'Amato and I chatted about container queries and CSS parts), I got to meet Dan Mall and nerd out on design tokens.

Knapsack's Design System Leadership Summit Manhattan

I again made the shortlist for Knapsack's "Design Systems Leadership" summit in Boston, on June 18. It's going to be a fun time in Beantown!

Conferences

Clarity 2021

Clarity '21 was my introduction to higher-level design systems operation. My second Nathan Curtis workshop spanned two days, and covered planning initiatives & roadmaps, communicating, support, process, contributions, and metrics, amother other ops-level topics.

UI23 Boston 2018

UI23 Boston was my introduction to design systems at scale. Over the course of a full day, Nathan Curtis' Scalable Design Systems workshop introduced participants to planning, designing & building, documenting, and practicing enterprise design systems.

I was introduced to the full lifecycle of design systems at scale. Some topics included:

Defining what a design system means for your org
Defining teams
Design tokens
Component inventory exercises
How to track design system team progress
Aligning API decisions across design & engineering
Information architecture for docs sites
How to decide what goes in a system
and metrics for measuring success

The full gamut!

Intridea/Mobomo-era Frontend Presentations

While I was at Intridea/Mobomo, I led the frontend track of our weekly team meetups. During this time, I presented on a variety of subjects, from OOCSS, to Design Systems to Ionic.

Check out the deck from my Design Systems presentation.