Spectacular Components

Spectacular Components

The new workshop series with Nathan Curtis that explores

how to make components with spectacular structure, purpose,

props, slots and styling with design tokens.

The new workshop series with Nathan Curtis that explores how to make components with spectacular structure, purpose, props, slots and styling with design tokens.

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best designers in the industry

Meet your facilitator

Nathan Curtis
Design System Consultant Directed Edges

Nathan Curtis
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 60 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.

Nathan works as a design system consultant via his company Directed Edges, 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 60 design systems over his career, including leading teams through major releases at Morningstar, Verizon, Capital One, Target, Fidelity, Marriott and many more.

Meet your facilitator

Nathan Curtis
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 60 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.

What attendees say about
Nathan's workshop

What attendees say about Nathan's workshop

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Excellent completion and closure of all planned topics.Activities on each of the topics presented and excellent quality of questions and answers.

Nicolas Diaz

Design Systems Lead at Liberty Latin America

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Excellent completion and closure of all planned topics.Activities on each of the topics presented and excellent quality of questions and answers.

Nicolas Diaz

Design Systems Lead at Liberty Latin America

❤️

The format of the virtual interactive workshop was fantastic, full of real-world examples and methods to tackle the toughest design system challenges from one of the industry's most influential experts.

Laura (Watral) Graham

Sr. UX Product Designer

❤️

The format of the virtual interactive workshop was fantastic, full of real-world examples and methods to tackle the toughest design system challenges from one of the industry's most influential experts.

Laura (Watral) Graham

Sr. UX Product Designer

🔥

Nathan's workshop was incredibly inspiring. Real-life examples, raw theory and awesome workshop-style exercises made this session super enjoyable and engaging.

Joshua Grootveld

Designer at Kamer van Koophandel

🔥

Nathan's workshop was incredibly inspiring. Real-life examples, raw theory and awesome workshop-style exercises made this session super enjoyable and engaging.

Joshua Grootveld

Designer at Kamer van Koophandel

❤️

I really appreciated the real-world examples that Nathan shared with us, and the interactive workshop-style exercises that we got to participate in as a group as well as in teams.

Amy Ogg

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems @Therapy Brands

❤️

I really appreciated the real-world examples that Nathan shared with us, and the interactive workshop-style exercises that we got to participate in as a group as well as in teams.

Amy Ogg

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems @Therapy Brands

🥰

The topics are very up to date and they work with the best of the best in terms of speakers. Excellent space to validate the decision-making that I currently have in my project within the company.

Nicolas Diaz Florit

Design System Lead

🥰

The topics are very up to date and they work with the best of the best in terms of speakers. Excellent space to validate the decision-making that I currently have in my project within the company.

Nicolas Diaz Florit

Design System Lead

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I had a fantastic time attending Nathan Curtis's inspiring Design System Planning and Process Workshop over the past two days!

Viyan Ateaa

UX Engineer & Design Technologist

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I had a fantastic time attending Nathan Curtis's inspiring Design System Planning and Process Workshop over the past two days!

Viyan Ateaa

UX Engineer & Design Technologist

What attendees say about
Nathan's workshop

👍

Excellent completion and closure of all planned topics.Activities on each of the topics presented and excellent quality of questions and answers.

Nicolas Diaz

Design Systems Lead at Liberty Latin America

❤️

The format of the virtual interactive workshop was fantastic, full of real-world examples and methods to tackle the toughest design system challenges from one of the industry's most influential experts.

Laura (Watral) Graham

Sr. UX Product Designer

🔥

Nathan's workshop was incredibly inspiring. Real-life examples, raw theory and awesome workshop-style exercises made this session super enjoyable and engaging.

Joshua Grootveld

Designer at Kamer van Koophandel

❤️

I really appreciated the real-world examples that Nathan shared with us, and the interactive workshop-style exercises that we got to participate in as a group as well as in teams.

Amy Ogg

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems @Therapy Brands

🥰

The topics are very up to date and they work with the best of the best in terms of speakers. Excellent space to validate the decision-making that I currently have in my project within the company.

Nicolas Diaz Florit

Design System Lead

💖

I had a fantastic time attending Nathan Curtis's inspiring Design System Planning and Process Workshop over the past two days!

Viyan Ateaa

UX Engineer & Design Technologist

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