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Sessions

Explore the sessions of presentations from all our events. Most of them have videos and sketch notes.

The Thing is Design Systems. The Time is Now.
The Thing is Design Systems. The Time is Now.
Brad Frost
2016
Building Empowering Style Guides with Practical Research
Building Empowering Style Guides with Practical Research
Isaak Hayes
2016
Beyond the Toolkit: Spreading a System Across People & Products
Beyond the Toolkit: Spreading a System Across People & Products
Nathan Curtis
2016
Code Patterns for Pattern-Making
Code Patterns for Pattern-Making
Miriam Suzanne
2016
Crawl, Walk, Run: the Evolution of a Design System
Crawl, Walk, Run: the Evolution of a Design System
Stephanie Rewis
Brandon Ferrua
2016
Being Human, Being Slack
Being Human, Being Slack
Anna Pickard
2016
Communicating Animation
Communicating Animation
Rachel Nabors
2016
Baking Accessibility In
Baking Accessibility In
Cordelia McGee-Tubb
2016
Living Systems: Brand in the Context of People’s Lives
Living Systems: Brand in the Context of People’s Lives
Jeremy Perez-Cruz
2016
Deconstructing Web Systems: a Pattern Language for Web Development
Deconstructing Web Systems: a Pattern Language for Web Development
Claudina Sarahe
2016
Turning the Ship: Living Design Systems in the Federal Government
Turning the Ship: Living Design Systems in the Federal Government
Maya Benari
2016
Designing for Earthlings & Astronauts
Designing for Earthlings & Astronauts
Richard Danne
2016
When We Align
When We Align
Cameron Moll
2017
Don’t Use My Grid System
Don’t Use My Grid System
Miriam Suzanne
2017
For & Against Consistency
For & Against Consistency
Abi Jones
2017
Design Systems for Data Products
Design Systems for Data Products
Linh Yao Pham
2017
A Working Theory of Components
A Working Theory of Components
Elyse Holladay
2017
Doing It Wrong
Doing It Wrong
Mina Markham
2017
How to VP
How to VP
Cap Watkins
2017
The Interaction of Color Systems
The Interaction of Color Systems
Diana Mounter
2017
The People Layer
The People Layer
Josh Silverman
2017
What Happens Next? Everything That Comes After Setting Up Your Design System
What Happens Next? Everything That Comes After Setting Up Your Design System
Isha Kasliwal
2017
Performance by Design
Performance by Design
Henri Helvetica
2017
Why Design Matters
Why Design Matters
Debbie Millman
2017
Creating Cultures of Empathy
Creating Cultures of Empathy
Sharon Steed
2018
Start with Your Brand Purpose
Start with Your Brand Purpose
Kim Williams
2018
Scenario-Driven Design Systems
Scenario-Driven Design Systems
Yesenia Perez-Cruz
2018
Composable Animation
Composable Animation
Sarah Drasner
2018
The Three P’s of a Design System
The Three P’s of a Design System
Adekunle Oduye
2018
Your Face Here
Your Face Here
Jennifer Hom
2018
Preserving Legacy Design Systems
Preserving Legacy Design Systems
Hamish Smyth
Jesse Reed
2018
Language of Design
Language of Design
Amélie Lamont
2018
Putting the “Design” in Design Systems
Putting the “Design” in Design Systems
Dan Mall
2018
Material Theming: Building an Expressive Design System
Material Theming: Building an Expressive Design System
Michelle Alvarez
Yasmine Evjen
2018
Driving Adoption
Driving Adoption
Julie Horvath
2018
Inclusive Design
Inclusive Design
John Maeda
2018
Co-Create: Creating Better Together
Co-Create: Creating Better Together
Denise Jacobs
2019
Code is a Material
Code is a Material
Rune Madsen
Martin Bravo
2019
Garbage Pail Components
Garbage Pail Components
Marcy Sutton
2019
Putting Your Brand in Motion
Putting Your Brand in Motion
Val Head
2019
Partnership & Trust to Fuel Growth
Partnership & Trust to Fuel Growth
Nicole Torgersen
Teresa Aguilera
2019
The World-Wide Work
The World-Wide Work
Ethan Marcotte
2019
Full-Featured Art Direction for the Web
Full-Featured Art Direction for the Web
Mina Markham
2019
Where We Can Go
Where We Can Go
Dan Eden
2019
Designing Standard Systems
Designing Standard Systems
Stephanie Rewis
Brandon Ferrua
2019
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Resource Hints
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Resource Hints
Harry Roberts
2019
System of Systems
System of Systems
Tatiana Mac
2019
Designing for the Impossible
Designing for the Impossible
Anil Dash
2019
The Design Systems Spiral
The Design Systems Spiral
Jina Anne
2020
The Importance of Perspective
The Importance of Perspective
Ben Colar
2020
Accessibility Beyond Color Contrast
Accessibility Beyond Color Contrast
Allison Shaw
2020
Design Systems as a Service: Keeping Your Customers Happy
Design Systems as a Service: Keeping Your Customers Happy
Alex Skougarevskaya
2020
The Systems of Design
The Systems of Design
Asia Hoe
2020
Designing for Happiness
Designing for Happiness
Sam Kapila
2020
Calculating Color: Dynamic Theming With CSS Variables
Calculating Color: Dynamic Theming With CSS Variables
Una Kravets
2020
Design Systems, or: How I Learned to Stop Fighting and Love the Team
Design Systems, or: How I Learned to Stop Fighting and Love the Team
Tim Shelburne
Natalya Shelburne
2020
Designing teams. Designing systems.
Designing teams. Designing systems.
Farai Madzima
2020
Creating Inclusive Content: Why it Matters
Creating Inclusive Content: Why it Matters
Brittney Ball
2020
An Introduction to Multi-Platform Design Systems
An Introduction to Multi-Platform Design Systems
Daniel Banks
2020
Mutualism
Mutualism
Alison Rand
2020
Design Systems Burnout
Design Systems Burnout
Lauren LoPrete
2021
Where Design Systems meet Editorial Experiences
Where Design Systems meet Editorial Experiences
Helen Hou-Sandi
2021
The Never Ending Story: Continuously Testing Your Components
The Never Ending Story: Continuously Testing Your Components
Angie Jones
2021
A Holistic, Human Approach to Service Design
A Holistic, Human Approach to Service Design
Eduardo Ortiz
2021
Dysfunctional Systems: Digital Products and Addiction
Dysfunctional Systems: Digital Products and Addiction
John Voss
2021
Cross Device: the Future of Design Systems
Cross Device: the Future of Design Systems
Jen Cotton
2021
Building Resilient Components with BDD
Building Resilient Components with BDD
Adekunle Oduye
2021
No Need for Bridges: How Design Technologists Dissolve the Design and Engineering Gap
No Need for Bridges: How Design Technologists Dissolve the Design and Engineering Gap
Ayesha Mazrana
2021
Resilient Design Systems for Resilient People
Resilient Design Systems for Resilient People
Donna Vitan
2021
The Diff After Dark Mode
The Diff After Dark Mode
Diana Mounter
2021
Standardizing Select: What the future holds for HTML Controls
Standardizing Select: What the future holds for HTML Controls
Stephanie Stimac
2021
The Worst Advice I Ever Gave
The Worst Advice I Ever Gave
Michael Bierut
2021
Your Next Component
Your Next Component
Dan Mall
2022
Down With Design Systems Dogma
Down With Design Systems Dogma
Amy Hupe
2022
Design Systems from Startup to IPO and Beyond
Design Systems from Startup to IPO and Beyond
Kathryn Gonzalez
2022
Charting A Path from CSS Zen Garden to Token Zen Garden
Charting A Path from CSS Zen Garden to Token Zen Garden
Esther Cheran
2022
Future of work. Future of management.
Future of work. Future of management.
Valerie Phoenix
2022
Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility
Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility
Anna E. Cook
2022
Good Design is Anti-Capitalist: a Discussion of the Way the Capitalist Context Prevents Designers from Doing Their Best Work, and How to Fight Back Against It.
Good Design is Anti-Capitalist: a Discussion of the Way the Capitalist Context Prevents Designers from Doing Their Best Work, and How to Fight Back Against It.
Natalie Weizenbaum
2022
Thinking Big and Small
Thinking Big and Small
Hayley Hughes
2022
A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility
A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility
Stéphanie Walter
2022
Designing Apple’s Design Guidance
Designing Apple’s Design Guidance
Linda Dong
2022
Design Systems Culture
Design Systems Culture
Ben Callahan
2022
Confronting Stigma Traps in Healthcare
Confronting Stigma Traps in Healthcare
Ashleigh Axios
2022
Pursuing Design Quality
Pursuing Design Quality
Jina Anne
2023
Designing a community-driven design systems roadmap
Designing a community-driven design systems roadmap
Jules Forrest
2023
From walled gardens to open fields: Why we need open standards in design
From walled gardens to open fields: Why we need open standards in design
Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent
2023
A Love Letter to CSS Variables
A Love Letter to CSS Variables
Daniel Banks
2023
Accessibility and Ouija Boards
Accessibility and Ouija Boards
Soren Hamby
2023
Panel: The Future of Design Systems
Panel: The Future of Design Systems
Amy Lee
Donnie D’Amato
Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent
2023
Decolonizing Your Design System: Unveiling Biases and Revolutionizing Inclusion
Decolonizing Your Design System: Unveiling Biases and Revolutionizing Inclusion
Michelle Chin
2023
Design Systems Carnival: One accessible component, many pretty masks
Design Systems Carnival: One accessible component, many pretty masks
Kathleen McMahon
2023
Building Design Systems That People Love
Building Design Systems That People Love
Amy Lee
2023
Mise en mode
Mise en mode
Donnie D’Amato
2023
Improving Accessibility through Design Systems
Improving Accessibility through Design Systems
Homer Gaines
2023
The Business Model is the Grid
The Business Model is the Grid
Erika Hall
2023
Beyond Code Generation: Where Design Systems Can Go Next In the Age of AI
Beyond Code Generation: Where Design Systems Can Go Next In the Age of AI
Jina Anne
2024
Design Systems Everywhere Else
Design Systems Everywhere Else
Dan Mall
2024
Creating Your Own Design Career Path
Creating Your Own Design Career Path
Val Head
2024
Queer Systems: Systems Thinking through the Lens of Queer Theory
Queer Systems: Systems Thinking through the Lens of Queer Theory
John Voss
2024