Into Design Systems at BlinkUX - Seattle, USA
Into Design Systems is coming to Seattle, WA! 🇺🇸 🥳 Join our casual, friendly in-person DS event at BlinkUX in downtown Seattle!
👩🏻💻👨🏾💻🧑🏼💻 Who is this for?
EVERYONE is welcome: designers, developers, POs, PMs, managers, researchers, accessibility specialists, freelancers, professionals, students - anybody! 🤗
🚨 Please note that there is limited seating/registration for this event - please only register if you are able to attend this meetup in-person in Seattle. 💗
Agenda:
2:30 PM - Doors Open & Networking
3:30 PM - Welcome & Introduction
3:45 PM - Featured Speakers
Speakers/Talks:
1) "From Concept to Code: Building and Evolving a Design System with SoCalGas"
BlinkUX co-presenters:
Stephanie Tang Waldrop, Visual Designer @BlinkUX
Allison Perlis, UX Designer @BlinkUX
2) "Auro: how we built a DS in a tech-hostile environment"
Dale Sande
Principal Engineer & Accessibility Advocate
@Alaska Airlines
4:45 PM - Panel Discussion
Panelists:
Jay Smith - Principal Design Systems Lead @REI
Kristen Althizer - UX Researcher on Design Systems @BlinkUX
Matt Karakilic - UX Consultant @Omnia Consulting, Ltd.
5:15 PM - Raffle prizes 🎟️
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Networking & Fun 🧃🍕👫
🥤🍽️ Food & beverages will be provided, courtesy of StackBlitz & BlinkUX!
👋 Your friendly hosts:
Amy Ogg - Senior Product Designer, Design Systems @Therapy Brands & Seattle Chapter Lead for Into Design Systems USA
We can't wait to see you there!
💖 Your Design System Friends
Our Sponsors
🏢 BlinkUX
Blink UX is a design consulting firm creating products that people use, love and remember. Blink has over two decades of experience in UX research, strategy and design partnering with innovative industry leaders including Amazon, Chase, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, Meta, and NASA. For more information visit blinkux.com. BlinkUX has kindly sponsored the space to host this event and the beverages as well!
💻 StackBlitz
Collaborate on web development without the hassle of setting up local environments. An instant fullstack web IDE for the JavaScript ecosystem, StackBlitz lets you write, run, and debug frontend code directly in your browser. Now you can use the web to build the web! StackBlitz has been kind enough to sponsor all the amazing food catering for this event!
💫 zeroheight
The end-to-end design system management platform: zeroheight offers a centralized repository where teams can access the latest documentation and stay up-to-date on current developments. It promotes collaboration, simplifies workflows, and ensures project consistency with integration capabilities with leading design and development tools like Figma and Storybook. Zeroheight has generously sponsored a Nintendo Switch Lite gaming console as one of this event's raffle prizes, and will also be offering exclusive extended zeroheight trials to this event's attendees!
📚 Dan Mall
Design systems legend Dan Mall is the founder of design system consultancy SuperFriendly, Design System University & Great Job, and author of the must-read "Design that Scales" book, which he has generously sponsored two copies of for raffle prizes for this event!
📐 Into Design Systems
Founded by Sil Bormüller, Into Design Systems is a platform with a mission to create a community for collaboration, knowledge-sharing & mutual support for learning about design systems through conferences, meetups, workshops and other events. Into Design Systems is sponsoring two free Into Design Systems conference tickets (valued at $399 each) for the upcoming Into Design Systems virtual conference in 2025 as part of this event's raffle!