I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING

A story about starting a design system for Justworks presented in the form of a lightning talk for the Design Systems Coalition NYC meetup covering documentation.

Transcript

1. 4 Mistakes
2. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING A story about starting a design system Tom Takigayama Product Design Lead @ Justworks
3. What is Justworks? An all-in-one solution offering benefits, HR support, compliance, and payroll for small to medium sized companies.
5. Justworks.com/careers
7. Full disclosure This was my first rodeo I’ve made mistake I’ve learned
13. Mistake #1 Thinking that someone else’s solutions were the answers to our problems.
19. Mistake #2 Focusing on the delivery and not the package we were delivering.
29. It’s not perfect...
30. Mistake #3 Not documenting principals
31. Why? How?
33. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING
34. I HAVE SOME IDEA WHAT I’M DOING
35. Thank you!