Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
How design happens at GitHub (ScotlandJS, 2014)
Search
Coby Chapple
May 10, 2014
Design
5
1.2k
How design happens at GitHub (ScotlandJS, 2014)
Coby Chapple
May 10, 2014
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Coby Chapple
See All by Coby Chapple
Product thinking with JTBD
cobyism
0
190
GitHub Flow for Designers
cobyism
1
340
Asynchronous Communication For The Win!
cobyism
0
270
GitHub Flow — AWS Summit Tokyo 2015
cobyism
16
4.3k
Belfast Ruby - Interesting things from the GitHub codebase
cobyism
3
320
Static Sites with Jekyll and GitHub Pages
cobyism
9
1.5k
How design happens at GitHub (Osaka, 2014)
cobyism
0
48
How GitHub Works (GitHub Kaigi, Tokyo, 2014)
cobyism
93
34k
Remote by default (BACON 2014)
cobyism
3
1.4k
Other Decks in Design
See All in Design
Illustrator2025がやってきた!私が好きな新機能
hamko1114
0
110
今日からできる実践アクセシビリティSNSというかXでaltをつけよう
securecat
1
140
東急URBAN HACKSのデザイナーって何やってるの? 〜Designer Night #1〜 組織横断のデザインの 取り組みについて
sig
1
270
【Adobe MAX Japan 2025】上手にFireflyにお願いしてウェブデザイン案を出すぞ!
cremacrema
3
3k
Rayout Pattern 01
one0
0
1.5k
太田博三(@usagisan2020)
otanet
0
220
若手デザイナーチームが手がける CADC2024クリエイティブディレクションの全貌 / opening-design
cyberagentdevelopers
PRO
1
1.5k
Where to Start with a Design System Across Different Frontend Frameworks | SpectrumTokyoMeetup#15
tararira
0
140
私たちは、世界とデザインの〝次の一歩〟を、どこへ向けるか。
tkhr_kws
2
280
(第1回) アーキテクト・テックリード育成講座
masakaya
0
160
Webデザイナーが押さえておきたいエンジニアとの連携ポイント
448jp
0
3k
志ある事業の種を社会に開花させるための挑戦/ Designship2024_Nishimura
root_recruit
0
260
Featured
See All Featured
Site-Speed That Sticks
csswizardry
3
370
Docker and Python
trallard
44
3.3k
10 Git Anti Patterns You Should be Aware of
lemiorhan
PRO
656
59k
Design and Strategy: How to Deal with People Who Don’t "Get" Design
morganepeng
129
19k
StorybookのUI Testing Handbookを読んだ
zakiyama
28
5.5k
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
csswizardry
34
3.1k
Build your cross-platform service in a week with App Engine
jlugia
229
18k
Building Better People: How to give real-time feedback that sticks.
wjessup
366
19k
The Success of Rails: Ensuring Growth for the Next 100 Years
eileencodes
44
7k
Testing 201, or: Great Expectations
jmmastey
41
7.2k
ReactJS: Keep Simple. Everything can be a component!
pedronauck
666
120k
Mobile First: as difficult as doing things right
swwweet
223
9.3k
Transcript
HOW DESIGN HAPPENS AT GITHUB ! cobyism — ScotlandJS 2014
@cobyism
None
None
None
None
DESIGN it happens
None
None
Pull Requests help settle arguments.
Pull Requests keep you grounded in reality.
Design happens in ...
Design here is real.
Design it once, not twice
Design here is always current.
Just commit.
big picture Focus on the first
Design happens with prototyping.
[ REDACTED ]
Design happens with lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
Design happens with real data.
None
Design happens hidden behind feature flags.
def new_feature_enabled? … end
def new_feature_enabled? preview_features? end
def new_feature_enabled? preview_features? && team_access?(:some_team) end
None
def new_feature_enabled? true end
Beware of feature flags.
Dogfooding is powerful, but it has it’s limits.
Design happens with feedback.
Design happens with quantitative feedback.
Design happens with qualitative feedback.
Design is everyone’s responsibility.
Design often begins without any designer input.
Beware of design by committee.
Beware of drive-by comments.
Design should be an open process.
Open design is the future.
Open design is really hard.
Open design requires making at paradigm shift.
Open design means showing work early.
Open design means accepting imperfection.
Open design helps build empathy.
Open design means articulating design decisions.
Open design means sacrificing your pride.
Open design means trusting people.
Open design means being respectful.
Open design takes constant work.
None
Thanks!
[email protected]
@cobyism