Design system & Culture
Design, culture, collaboration and systems.
I love to talk about design, discover new tools, and new methods. I like to understand how I can improve my processes, how I communicate, how I learn, and how I can teach better.
Is not only about moving pixels and creating beautiful apps.
Is about how I can help other designers do a better job. How can the work become easier for them?
"Can we create a template from this? Do we need to document this process for future onboardings? Do I need to create a variant for this component? Does everyone know where to find this guideline?"
Design systems are a natural thing for me.
Discuss and understand what should be a component or not. Organize templates, guidelines, documentation, and libraries.
It helps the company to scale sustainably and makes it easier for designers and developers to focus on the problem and not the pixels or code.
This Figma version is a bit outdated, but me and a co-worker created plenty of components, styles and patterns so other designers could use.
There was only one developer on the Design system team and we used to work together all the time to make it happen. All components were developed.
Great documentation takes time. I like to invest a good amount of time and write congruent documentation whenever is possible.
This initial investment usually ends up saving hours of discussions and reworks, bringing ideas together, and structuring a consistent design culture across the company.
Is a very common ritual to run workshops with the team I work with. Not only for Product designers but also with Developers and PMs.
Some of the workshops I ran were about:
Design processes
Rapid iteration
Design System
UX Writing
Handoff process
Workshops are an important part of the team culture. When everyone is evolving together and understanding which path the company or the team wants to take, meetings start to run smoothly, communication is improved and team members create a stronger connection. Big fan.
Thank you