Design Systems Virtual Summit 2018

Consistency vs. Flexibility in Design Systems: A GE Case Study

Ken Skistimas

Director, User Experience at GE Digital

13th February 20189:00^amPST

You'll learn:

Where design systems should be consistent or flexible
How GE Digital handles consistency vs. flexibility in the Predix design system
How to adapt tools and technology to balance both.

Ken SkistimasDirector, User Experience at GE Digital

Ken Skistimas is Design Director at GE Digital where he leads the Predix UI Design System team. His team creates and maintains a scalable and extensible design language for consumption across hundreds of applications that connect people, data and machines built on Predix, GE’s Industrial Internet platform.

Before joining GE, Ken led the User Experience team for the Salesforce Sales Cloud, their largest product. He was heavily involved with the design and launch of Lightning Experience, Salesforce’s most significant redesign since its original launch and contributed many core patterns to the Lightning Design System.

With a background in graphic design and a highly collaborative nature, Ken is a big proponent of getting ideas down by sketching, sharing early with product and development teams and using data to iterate quickly to deliver exceptional user experiences.

UXPin: State of the Union Product Keynote

Marcin Treder

CEO at UXPin

13th February 201810:30^amPST

You'll learn:

How UXPin unifies design with code in design systems
Recent design system features in UXPin alongside roadmap
Predictions for the future of design tools.

UXPin Demo: Creating Design Systems

Taylor Marshall

Sr. Account Executive at UXPin

13th February 201811:45^amPST

You'll learn:

How to identify and resolve current design inconsistencies
How to close knowledge gaps between designers and developers
How to sustain design consistency and development efficiency across products

Should Designers?

Dan Mall

Design Director at Superfriendly

13th February 20181:00^pmPST

You'll learn:

How code and design skills relate to each other
How designers fit into Agile workflows
The role of the designer in owning design systems

From the designer's laptop to the user's – and everything in between

Allard van Helbergen

Sr. Designer in the Design System team at Atlassian

13th February 20182:30^pmPST

You'll learn:

How Atlassian builds and manages their design system across their product suite
How the Design System team empowers users by iterating with research and testing
How design and engineering cooperate to be efficient and productive

The Organizational Impact of Design Systems

Shahrzad Samadzadeh

Principal Product Designer at Salesforce

14th February 20189:00^amPST

You'll learn:

How Salesforce’s design system impacts design process, business stakeholders, and ecosystem partners
How a design system directly and indirectly enables business growth
The challenges that come with impact, and how Salesforce solves them

Creating and Maintaining a Design System for 130 Teams

Bethany Sonefeld

Design Lead at IBM Bluemix

14th February 201810:30^amPST

You'll learn:

How to adapt activities, technology, and processes for the 4 stages of design systems
How to govern a design system for years
How the Carbon Design System was created, adopted, governed, and evolved

UXPin Demo: Agile UX Process

Taylor Marshall

Sr. Account Executive at UXPin

14th February 201811:45^amPST

You'll learn:

How to design collaboratively with global teams in UXPin
How to shorten your iteration cycles with UXPin
How UXPin improves design consistency in product sprints

Initiating and Sustaining Design Systems for the Enterprise

Carl Tsui
Sr. Manager, UX Engineering at athenahealth
Jen Cardello
Executive Director, Design Platforms at athenahealth

14th February 20181:00^pmPST

You'll learn:

How to sell a design system to designers, engineers, and stakeholders
How to assemble a design systems team and technology stack
How to build a design systems backlog, governance model, and ROI tracking

Carl TsuiSr. Manager, UX Engineering at athenahealth

Carl Tsui leads the UX engineering group at athenahealth and is the product owner for the company-wide design system initiative. He mixes the code discipline of over 13 years of software development with design sensibility and a user centered product approach. His career has spanned diverse industries including healthcare, space imaging, education, geospatial, and urban planning in roles of business owner, designer, or developer. At athenahealth, Carl continues to build a team of multi-disciplinary professionals dedicated to advanced prototyping, front end technology research, and design systems.

Jen CardelloExecutive Director, Design Platforms at athenahealth

Currently the Head of Design Platforms at athenahealth, Jen leads teams focused on Experience Measurement & Insights, Design Systems, and DesignOps. Her group's charter is to empower the entire organization to innovate, design, and build great experiences.

Jen has spent 20 years helping organizations utilize human-centered design to gain business advantage and ensure end-user value. Prior to joining athenahealth, she was a director at Nielsen Norman Group, conducting user research, consulting, and teaching courses worldwide on topics including persuasive web design, information architecture, navigation, web analytics, and web-based social strategies.

Since 1996, Jen has consulted to over 60 organizations in a variety of sectors including healthcare, retail, government, financial services, lodging, transportation and charitable organizations.

Jen has a B.F.A. in Architecture from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Creating Experience Principles for UX Systems

Dustin Wagner

Sr. Visual Designer at Fjord

14th February 20182:30^pmPST

You'll learn:

How to create crisp design principles for a design system
How to avoid vague design principles
Useful activities and workshops for creating design principles

Evolving your Design System: People, Product, and Process

Jessica Clark

Design Manager, Design Systems at Linkedin

15th February 20189:00^amPST

You'll learn:

How to create and maintain a design system over several years
How people, process, and product change alongside a design system
Lessons learned from growing the Linkedin design system

Thinking in Symbols for Universal Design

Ben Wilkins

Design Technology Lead at Airbnb

15th February 201810:30^amPST

You'll learn:

How to design consistently for multiple interface targets like Android, iOS, VR, or even Natural Language interfaces
How to design consistently across multiple languages
How Airbnb practices universal design

UXPin Demo: Collaboration + Developer Handoffs

Eric Malnati

Sr. Account Executive at UXPin

15th February 201811:45^amPST

You'll learn:

How to co-design and collaborate with teams in UXPin
How to turn team feedback into action items in UXPin
How to automatically generate dev specs and documentation with UXPin

Accessibility in Design Systems

Allison Shaw

Sr. Product Designer at Zendesk

15th February 20181:00^pmPST

You'll learn:

The benefits of accessibility in a design system
How to create and incorporate accessibility standards
How to improve accessibility across your product suite

Session canceled

Courtney Clark

Managing Director of UX at Forumone

16th February 20189:00^amPST

You'll learn:

Insights from working on dozens of design systems projects for government and NGO projects
Lessons related to building, governing, and maintaining design systems
Design systems best practices based on trial and error

UXPin Demo: Component-Based Prototyping

Taylor Marshall

Sr. Account Executive at UXPin

16th February 201810:30^amPST

You'll learn:

How to turn Sketch and Photoshop files into layered prototypes
How to improve design consistency with Design Systems in UXPin
How to scale changes to elements with Design System Libraries

Session canceled

Damon Dimmick

Director of Product Design & UX at Constant Contact

16th February 20181:00^pmPST

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