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Design Systems are for People

jina
November 10, 2017

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.

jina

November 10, 2017
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  1. —ALEX SCHLEIFER “Here’s the simple truth: you can’t innovate on

    products without first innovating the way you build them.”
  2. —NYCTA GRAPHIC STANDARDS MANUAL “…The passenger will be given the

    information or direction only at the point of decision. Never before. Never after…”
  3. —NYCTA GRAPHIC STANDARDS MANUAL “…This program will eliminate visual clutter,

    and information that is misleading or unnecessarily repetitious.”
  4. 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
  5. — CRAIG VILLAMOR “The more decisions you put off, and

    the longer you delay them, the more expensive they become.”
  6. — DIANA MOUNTER “…It’s designers, engineers,
 and the rest of

    the team sharing the responsibility to build a quality product…”
  7. “…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
  8. “…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
  9. — SARAH FEDERMAN “I think as a community we’re starting

    to get a bit dogmatic about what design systems are and are not…”
  10. — SARAH FEDERMAN “…I want to stress that all of

    this is just personal opinion and whatever works for your team is the right answer…”
  11. — SARAH FEDERMAN “…I want newcomers to feel welcome and

    to help make design systems accessible to everyone, because I ❤ design systems.”