Spectacular component alignment
between design and code
As collaboration and tools improve, it's increasingly realistic to align the shape of UI component implementations across platforms (not just React, iOS and Android but, yes, Figma too).
Design system teams are investing time and effort to align the names of component, property, enumerated variants, and elements across their catalog. In this talk, I'll describe my experiences leading those efforts across many design systems, including the steps I took, the patterns I learned, and the practices I instituted to avoid the problem in the future.
Conference
Duration
1 hour
Category
UI Architecture
Format
Practical Session
What you will learn
Key takeaways from this UI Architecture session
- 1
What API alignment is and why it matters
- 2
How to audit existing catalogs, propose changes, and balance tradeoffs of breaking changes and "alignment debt"
- 3
When to align, diverge, ignore, or create a transformation between the shape of different implementations
- 4
What tools and techniques foster the practical understanding and getting work done
Who is this for
Designers and front-end developers collaborating and responsible for architecting the shape of names, properties and other attributes of UI components that other people reuse.
Conference
Duration
1 hour
Category
UI Architecture
Format
Practical Session
Presented by
Learn from an experienced Design Systems professional
Nathan Curtis
He/Him
Design System Consultant, Directed Edges
Nathan works as a design system consultant via his company Directed Edges, after running EightShapes with Dan Brown from 2006 to 2024.
As a consultant, he advises, delivers projects for, and/or embeds to lead design system teams for clients in the United States and around the world.
Nathan has contributed to or consulted with over 80 design systems over his career, including leading teams through major releases at Morningstar, Verizon, Capital One, Target, Fidelity, Marriott and many more.
He'll help you learn by combining deep knowledge with a nuanced understanding of how systems work in companies of varying scale, types, and organizational models.
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