Building a Design System across People & Products :: Nathan Curtis

We hosted Nathan Curtis, founder of the Washington, DC UX agency EightShapes and author of Modular Web Design, at Mesh. Curtis had worked since 1996 across information architecture, interaction design, usability and front-end development, and had led workshops on design systems and pattern libraries.

His talk treated a design system as a product in its own right, serving many products and teams across an enterprise. He covered how to plan a strategy for it: which products adopt the system and to what degree, who its audience is, who contributes, which groups need to be aligned, and who supports or resists it.

Curtis also discussed how to identify and prioritise the people and products to engage so that a system spreads and lasts over time. He led a full-day workshop on scalable design systems the next day.

Speakers

• Nathan Curtis, Founder, EightShapes (Washington, DC); author of Modular Web Design — Building a Design System across People & Products

The original event page is on meetup.com.