Creating illustration Systems that Work for Everyone
summary
Shows a concrete five-step workflow — audit design organize produce and socialize — and demos reusable components: a paper dolls file with swap-able heads, hands, utensils and color styles plus a composition tool called TableMates. Explains export hygiene for SVGs, naming/tagging and SLAs, where masters and flat PNGs should live, and how to run an illustration sync and Slack channel. Useful if the goal is an internal illustration library you can maintain and hand off.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Speaker background
- 2:30House vs personal styles
- 3:53Maintaining systems
- 5:41Authentic illustration systems
- 6:24Diversity beyond skin tones
- 8:29Foursquare case study
- 10:15Interactive paper dolls
- 13:25Table Mates for composition
- 17:40Building illustration library
- 18:45Auditing illustrations
- 20:09Designing system
- 21:54Organizing library
- 24:44Naming and tagging
- 28:14Files and concepts
- 30:00Producing library
- 31:02Files for library
- 32:24Socializing system
- 33:27Weekly sync and engagement
- 35:36Q&A
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