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Webinar Series: Design Systems Discussion – Measurement

Design System Discussions is a chance for us to gather the brightest minds in design systems and design system documentation to discuss pressing issues that we face as design orgs with our design system implementation.

From adoption to measurement to documentation to contribution, each panel is designed to answer your questions on how to make your design system the best it can be. After our successful event last month, we’re back for round two.

#2 – Design System Discussions: Measurement

Design systems provide companies a tremendous amount of value, eliminating inconsistency, time spent on design, development, improving user experience and so much more. The question is, how can you measure its impact? How can you show the value a Design System is creating? Join us to listen to our expert panel share their thoughts!

Nathan Curtis

Nathan co-founded EightShapes with Dan Brown in 2006. He’s passionate about information architecture, UX, front-end dev, and leads design systems consulting at EightShapes. He wrote Modular Web Design in 2009, writes regularly on EightShapes’ @components publication (also published on Medium.com), and regularly speaks at events worldwide. Nathan has led or consulted on strategy with 40+ design systems since 2006, including at Morningstar, Fidelity, Verizon, REI, Target, Marriott, Cisco, Capital One, Atlassian, and Salesforce.

Maya Hampton

Maya is Digital Product Manager at REI, building better, faster, and more innovative product teams. From strategy through execution and maintenance, she has worked to define, plan, and orchestrate the launch and ongoing operations for numerous digital products and programs. She often writes content on Medium and other publications to share her expertise on various topics, including Design Systems, Tokens, User experience, and much more. You can follow her work at Cedar Design System.

Gabby Hon

An experienced UX generalist, Gabby Hon honed her skills over 16 years on a wide variety of clients and projects, both full time, and freelance. From strategy to wireframes, ethnographic research to usability testing, business analysis to facilitation, she engages deeply with each problem space to define business and customer needs. Additionally, Gabby is a Certified Scrum Product Owner, who has led multidisciplinary teams developing software for K-12 education. Currently, she is at HashiCorp as Design Program Manager, where her focus is setting up all the metrics for their design system.

Katrina Dargel (moderator)

Katrina Dargel is a Design Advocate at zeroheight. Before zeroheight, Katrina has worked as a user experience designer, researcher, consultant and educator with brands including McDonald’s, Airbus, SEAT, General Assembly, European Commission, and more. When she’s not learning about Design Systems, she loves biking around London, finding good eats, learning Spanish, and traveling to new places.