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Topic: Design Systems

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Dan Zollman

How Do I Know If I’m Doing Good? Practicing Ethical Design within Complex Systems

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Dan Zollman

What You’ll Learn

  • A systems-oriented understanding of ethical challenges for designers.
  • Guiding principles for ethical practice in complex environments.
  • Techniques for incorporating ethics into your work—whether by adding new methods, or by deepening the methods you already use.
  • Recommendations on how our professional community can move forward with ethics as a core part of our field.
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Jina Anne

Design Systems Are For People

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Jina Anne

What You’ll Learn

  • Build a community culture that empowers teams to make change, work productively, and creatively to solve problems
  • Use design principles to inform your design system, lead design critiques, and drive decisions
  • Explore materials (documentation) and non-materials (shared language and nomenclature) that encompass a design system
  • Why shared ownership of your design system is critical to creating a transparent, collaborative, and inclusive community
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Nathan Curtis

A Tour of Today’s Online Style Guides

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Nathan Curtis

What You’ll Learn

  • Why examples are important and the best places to find inspiration for your style guide
  • How to create style guides even when you don’t have time
  • How to see your style guide with a critical eye for the purpose of fine-tuning
  • How to understand what your organization needs from your style guide
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Brad Frost

Working With Atomic Design

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Brad Frost

What You’ll Learn

  • Identify the basic design elements that make up your website
  • Use these elements to create smart, scalable, maintainable designs
  • Convince everyone back at the office to ditch ad-hoc design and embrace a pattern-based workflow
  • Unite disparate teams and departments to build designs that deliver a consistent experience across multiple platforms