Design Systems are for People

Talk for Web Directions Summit Sydney and Design Systems Coalition NYC. Not much to see on the slides, to be honest. You’ll want to watch the recording.

Transcript

1. Design Systems are for People JINA ANNE
 WEB DIRECTIONS SUMMIT
 10 NOVEMBER 2017
2. @jina
7. airbnb.design/the-way-we-build
8. —ALEX SCHLEIFER “Here’s the simple truth: you can’t innovate on products without first innovating the way you build them.”
13. —NYCTA GRAPHIC STANDARDS MANUAL “…orient people within the subway environment…”
14. —NYCTA GRAPHIC STANDARDS MANUAL “…The passenger will be given the information or direction only at the point of decision. Never before. Never after…”
15. —NYCTA GRAPHIC STANDARDS MANUAL “…This program will eliminate visual clutter, and information that is misleading or unnecessarily repetitious.”
16. Why are we here?
17. DESIGN SYSTEMS ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW DESIGN SYSTEMS ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW DESIGN SYSTEMS ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW DESIGN SYSTEMS ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW DESIGN SYSTEMS ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW DESIGN SYSTEMS ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW DESIGN SYSTEMS ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW DESIGN SYSTEMS ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW DESIGN SYSTEMS ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW
18. lightningdesignsystem.com
20. designsystemsbook.com
21. medium.com/salesforce-ux/defining-principles-to-drive-design-decisions-b647b68fb057
22. forbes.com/sites/salesforce/2016/04/29/how-we-designed-the-new-salesforce-at-scale
23. — CRAIG VILLAMOR “The more decisions you put off, and the longer you delay them, the more expensive they become.”
24. Your internal customers
25. clarityconf.com/deconstructing-web-systems-or-a-pattern-language-for-web-development
26. creativebloq.com/web-design/empower-designers-code-41619919
27. — DIANA MOUNTER “True collaboration isn’t throwing designs over
 the wall…”
28. — DIANA MOUNTER “…It’s designers, engineers,
 and the rest of the team sharing the responsibility to build a quality product…”
29. — DIANA MOUNTER “…Reduce the barriers,
 support and empower them,
 and designers who code will become the norm.”
30. Design Systems Ops
31. medium.com/@kaelig/introducing-design-systems-ops-7f34c4561ba7
32. “…Design Systems Ops…
 is part of a design systems team, who needs to get into the designers’ shoes, and have a feel for what they are trying 
 to conceptualize…” — KAELIG DELOUMEAU-PRIGENT
33. “…At the same time,
 Design Systems Ops need to understand the engineering requirements and define methods that will help shipping and scaling the Design System.” — KAELIG DELOUMEAU-PRIGENT
34. Design Ops vs
 Design Systems Ops
35. publication.design.systems/distilling-how-we-think-about-design-systems-b26432eefef9
36. — SARAH FEDERMAN “I think as a community we’re starting to get a bit dogmatic about what design systems are and are not…”
37. — SARAH FEDERMAN “…I want to stress that all of this is just personal opinion and whatever works for your team is the right answer…”
38. — SARAH FEDERMAN “…I want newcomers to feel welcome and to help make design systems accessible to everyone, because I ❤ design systems.”
39. Empathy
40. Creativity
41. The Design Systems Community
43. Design Systems are for People
44. slack.design.systems
45. publication.design.systems
46. news.design.systems
47. clarityconf.com
48. sfdsc.co SAN FRANCISCO
49. @jina
50. patreon.com/sushiandrobots
51. Thank You