Keeping your design system alive

Keeping your design system alive @yaili View Source, London, October 2017

About me…

A quick intro

“design system”

Put someone in charge

“System enthusiasts must become entrepreneurs, pitching and selling ideas that get a possibly resistant organization to commit. ” — Nathan Curtis

Have a roadmap

Be open

Define contribution process

Look a ! er the docs

Make things easy to find

Plan maintenance

“A system isn’t a project with an end, it’s the origin story of a living and evolving product that’ll serve other products. ” — Nathan Curtis

Put someone in charge
Have a roadmap
Be open
Define contribution process
Look a ! er documentation
Make things easy to find
Plan maintenance

@yaili

github.com/yaili/speaking

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Thank you!

Keeping your design system alive @yaili View Source, London, October 2017