Config 2020
2020-02-06
San Francisco, United States
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who it's for
product designers, design system managers, design engineers, front-end engineers, ux researchers, open source maintainers, community managers
topics
Figma plugins ecosystem; plugin inspector and API; design systems foundations accessibility; design system analytics and metrics; typography handling and font metadata; collaborative file browser workflows; statecharts for UI components; remote usability testing with prototypes; open source design practices; illustration system libraries; prototype input support (gamepad and keys)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Keynote: Welcome to a New Decade of Design | Dylan Field | 28m |
Announces concrete product moves: an improved font picker, live demo of selection colors that changes fills and strokes across selections, added stretch… | ||
| Adding Scaffolding to Collaboration for Deep Work | Craig Mod | 35m |
Argues that concrete boundaries and tool design produce deeper work and community ties by showing two experiments: a one-foot-by-one-foot 300-page book… | ||
| The City Guide to Open Source | Devon Zuegel | 31m |
History-backed claims: centralized fixes (Paris sewage cut cholera and infant deaths from four-in-seven), top-down language changes (Elm remove signals with a… | ||
| May-Li Khoe In Conversation with Scott Hansen | Scott Hansen, May-Li Khoe | 28m |
Two-time Grammy nominations and a design background lead to concrete practices: opened Easy to fan remixes as a template-driven album-cover experiment, learns… | ||
| Joyfully Subvert the Status Quo | May-Li Khoe | 34m |
Specific, repeatable moves and results not promises: archival declassification reveals 500,000–2,000,000 deaths in 1965 Indonesia changing the narrative… | ||
| I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn't Believe What Happened Next | Marcin Wichary | 24m |
Pressing ⌘B becomes a long sequence of decisions: which numeric weight corresponds to “bold,” how to pick between local Google or org-shared fonts, what to do… | ||
| A Beautiful Mess: How We Build Products at Figma | Jenny Wen, Lizhi Fan | 26m |
Figma describes concrete launches: Community ships profiles and publishable files that let anyone duplicate and remix content, plus a redesigned file browser… | ||
| Extend what's possible with Figma Plugins | Brian Lovin, Jake Miller, Lily Nguyen | 37m |
Three short case studies show concrete results and tools: GitHub demos about ten small utilities merged into a mono-plugin that applies color style variants… | ||
| Open Source Design: Designing with the Community | Miguel Solorio | 16m |
Visual Studio Code makes design public on GitHub and in Figma, posts roadmaps and monthly plans, and measures results: 9 million monthly active users, 100 icon… | ||
| Open Source Design: Design is the Future of Open Source | Soleio | 22m |
Declares a specific prediction: design is the future of open source and argues for concrete mechanisms — GitHub-enabled remixing, Macromedia Flash files on a… | ||
| Remote Control: How NPR Conducts Usability Testing | Irene Kim | 17m |
A Figma prototype of a redesigned sign‑in pop‑up for the NPR One app tests whether clearer copy and animation increase sign‑ins; recruitment prioritizes… | ||
| States: A Product Love Language | Lucas Smith | 22m |
Statecharts live inside modern design tools like Figma and Framer X yet rarely get shared formally; the concrete claim is to model UI components as finite… | ||
| Look, No Hands! | Michelle Vandy | 22m |
Claim: product design methods solve real personal obstacles. A nose-controlled trackpad prototype sits 12 inches above the table and after iterations delivers… | ||
| Designing with the Public: How Figma Empowers Chicago Digital Services | Jason Kunesh | 14m |
Facing an 838 million dollar budget hole, the City runs about 2.7 million residents and uses a web footprint of 20 million visits and 200 legacy apps, so the… | ||
| Cross-functional Relationships: Content Strategy for Designers | Peter Zogas | 19m |
Argues that content strategy as a lens means focusing on how language drives UX and putting real copy into designs early not lorem ipsum; shows concrete edits… | ||
| Creating illustration Systems that Work for Everyone | Bonnie Kate Wolf | 40m |
Shows a concrete five-step workflow — audit design organize produce and socialize — and demos reusable components: a paper dolls file with swap-able heads… | ||
| Creating illustration Systems that Work for Everyone | Bonnie Kate Wolf | 40m |
Claims a practical five-step framework — audit, design, organize, produce, socialize — and shows actual assets: a paper dolls file and a composable TableMates… | ||
| Mostly Clear, Partly Sunny | Michael Yap | 16m |
Claim: design leadership is engineering the conditions for designers to do their best work not just hiring or cheerleading. It uses a cybernetic nested… | ||
| Design Systems Showcase: Collaborative Structure | Zen Lara | 16m |
Teams negotiate concrete collaboration terms, not vague goals: name values, agree who owns what, and define accountability. Practical practices include weekly… | ||
| Design Systems Showcase: TACKling Our Design System | Jon Kerwin | 09m |
A design system called Thumbprint is built and used across web native and email, with foundations-first work that cuts layout noise from 821 spacing instances… | ||
| Design Systems Showcase: Naming (and renaming) a Design System | Jules Forrest | 13m |
Starts as a web design system called thread with a Sketch library and matching React components, launches in early 2018, then engineering bandwidth dries up… | ||
| Design Systems Showcase: Designing Performance Friendly & Accessible Foundations | Tricia Cigna | 10m |
Design system foundations include palettes, type scales, grids, spacing and icons and they shape real performance and accessibility outcomes not just… | ||
| Beyond the Bubble: Developing the next generation of designers | Elizabeth Lin, Alana Aaron, Maurice Woods, Biyi Adetunji, Miguel Cardona | 49m |
Lightning briefs name concrete wins and constraints: Code.org reports Hour of Code — ~15 million participants and fast teacher-training scale; classroom use of… | ||
| Keynote | Dylan Field, Craig Mod, Devon Zuegel, May-Li Khoe, Scott Hansen | 02h 26m |
Keynote lists concrete product moves: an updated font picker UI, live demo of selection colors (available now) that edits fills across text, icons, strokes… | ||
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