Building design systems that leverage your designers, developers and products {#cover}

Building design systems that leverage your designers, developers and products

Varya Stepanova
Design Systems Specialist

Me

Now

Design Systems Specialist
at Intergalactico _{Nordcloud Design Studio}

Before

TMG (Amsterdam, the Netherlands); Yandex (Moscow, Russia)

Area of expertise

Components on the web: design systems, pattern libraries, SGDD, BEM. Techs: CSS, JavaScript, etc.

Various design systems

Elisa 2018 journey

Design system at

in 2018

Great design community
World-class frontend teams
UI kit in Sketch
Library of CSS components
Libraries of React components
Shared tools and practices

What?

How? What?

Design thinking

Research

Customer research
- interviews with teams
- documenting feedback
Industry research
- having time for studies

Process the info

What we are doing now
What people expect us to do
Our dream activities
How would we respond the requests if we COULD.
What we can offer now

Workshops

Design system is a process

Everyone to be involved

Single point of truth

Give and get

Constantly growing site
- Documentation
- Announces
- Tutorials and shares
- Blog
Channel in instant messenger
Communication in person

be creative

Pattern journey

be unique

Thank you

Varya Stepanova, Intergalactico - Nordcloud Design Studio
@varya_en; on the web: varya.me

Building design systems that leverage your designers, developers and products {#cover}

Building design systems that leverage your designers, developers and products

Me

Now

Before

Area of expertise

Various design systems

Elisa 2018 journey

Design system at

in 2018

What?

How? What?

Design thinking

Research

Process the info

Workshops

Design system is a process

Everyone to be involved

Single point of truth

Give and get

be creative

be creative

Pattern journey

be unique

be unique

Thank you

Slides

varya.me/ds-in-wild-tallinn