Into Design Systems Meetup at Slalom - Seattle, USA
Into Design Systems Meetup in Seattle, WA! 🇺🇸 🥳 Join our casual, friendly in-person DS event at Slalom in Seattle!
👩🏻💻👨🏾💻🧑🏼💻 Who is this for?
EVERYONE is welcome: designers, developers, POs, PMs, managers, researchers, accessibility specialists, freelancers, founders, professionals, students - anybody! 🤗
🚨 Please only register if you are able to attend this meetup in-person in Seattle, WA. 💗
*Note: For this event, we have a full agenda - we are featuring a design systems talk and interactive workshop by the amazing Guy Segal, a DS leadership panel discussion and networking.
Agenda:
3:30 PM - Doors & check-in
4:00 PM - Welcome & Introduction
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM - Workshop & Presentation by featured speaker Guy Segal - Director, Design + Design System at Thomson Reuters
"Scaling Design Systems Through Human-Centered Principles" - Presented with a nearly impossible task, Guy's team had to build a design system to support dozens of enterprise products within a fragmented organization. Learning from past mistakes, they approached it the only way they could; by focusing on the humans who will be using it on a daily basis.
Join us for a two part event; in the first part, Guy will take us through the project, share some of the human-centered approaches used, and reveal the results. In the second part, Guy will lead a hands-on workshop on the pre-mortem technique, which allowed his DS team to move forward from past challenges and setbacks and align on working principles for the project that helped inform an action plan towards its success.
6:00 PM - Design Systems Leadership Panel Discussion + Q&A
Guy Segal - Director, Design + Design Systems @Thomson Reuters
Dale Sande - Principal Design Systems Engineer & Accessibility Advocate @Alaska Airlines
Amy Ogg - Senior Product Designer, Design Systems @Therapy Brands
Speaker 4 TBA
6:30 PM - Raffle prizes (2 free tickets to the IDS 3-day virtual conference) 🎟️
6:35 PM - 8:00 PM - Networking & Fun 🧃🍕👫
🥤🍽️ Food & beverages will be provided.
👋 Your friendly hosts & IDS Seattle Chapter Team:
❖ Amy Ogg - Senior Product Designer, Design Systems @Therapy Brands & Seattle Chapter Lead for Into Design Systems USA
❖ Dale Sande - Principal Engineer & Accessibility Specialist @Alaska Airlines
❖ Jesse Clark - Senior Technical Lead - Design Systems @Cisco
❖ Feng Tien - UX Designer @Costco Wholesale
We can't wait to see you there!
💖 Your Design System Friends
Our Sponsors
🏢 Slalom
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that was founded in 2001 with the goal of disrupting the consulting industry. Their rapid, organic growth in the 25 years since, with no acquisition or external investment, is a testament to how they work and why they believe we can become the world’s most customer-obsessed and employee-empowered services company. Slalom is trusted by individuals and leadership teams inside the majority of the Global 1000, many of the world’s most successful enterprise, mid-market, and emerging companies, and more than 500 high-impact public sector agencies, foundations, and universities. Slalom is generously sponsoring the venue & drinks for our meetup!
💠 Handoff
Handoff is a set of open-source tools for design systems teams. Handoff plugs into your existing infrastructure, pulls design token data from your Figma files, and then transforms that data into deployment-ready code and team-ready documentation. With Handoff, design and development teams can collaborate more efficiently, ensuring consistency and accelerating project timelines. Handoff is generously sponsoring our workshop speaker & panelist Guy Segal all the way from Canada!
📐 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 $549 each) for the upcoming Into Design Systems 3-day online conference in May 2025 as part of this event's raffle!