Config Europe 2020
2020-09-17
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who it's for
product designers, design system engineers, design managers, design ops specialists, frontend developers, localisation engineers, accessibility specialists, agency creatives
topics
Figma-first onboarding blueprints; design system as a service; Figma to React component sync; Variants feature and authoring; localisation pipeline with Phrase; perceptual colour spaces (HSLuv, Cubehelix); mobile-first design for low-bandwidth markets; design tokens and component libraries; remote collaboration and living documents; onboarding UX advocacy programs; measuring design system adoption; command line interface design
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Design system as a service, not a product | Declan Talbert | 21m |
A university treats its design system as a service not a product by building a paid‑attention UX advocacy program that teaches non-designers to use and… | ||
| Tackling Tech Ethics: Empowering the Builders w/ Value-sensitive Gameplay | Shirley Lai | 24m |
Shares The Designated Dissenter, a card deck and remote framework that empowers junior designers to surface concrete impacts by forcing specific claims and… | ||
| When localisation & design talk to each other | Anne-Sophie Delafosse | 26m |
Deliveroo shows a workable pipeline that extracts text and screenshots from Figma and syncs them with Phrase so translators get full context and designers pull… | ||
| Inside Figma: Little big features in the Editor | Lauren Budorick | 23m |
Implements CSS-like shadow spread but only for rectangles and ellipses only, reproducing browser behavior for corner radius and ellipse scaling; rejects full… | ||
| What if it all started in Figma? | Heldiney Pereira | 20m |
Claim: a design system onboarding can start inside Figma and shift a system into a shared culture. Built a Figma-first Blueprint onboarding in Figma that links… | ||
| Intentful Contrast | Henrique Gusso | 20m |
Claims that HSL gives misleading lightness get quantified: two colors with equal HSL lightness show relative luminance 93 versus 10 so they read very… | ||
| Creating trust towards clients through Figma | Daan Hekking | 28m |
Claim: open Figma files build client trust if treated like living documents with rules. Concrete tactics: include client docs and explainer pages, color‑coded… | ||
| A look into Figma product thinking | Sho Kuwamoto | 24m |
Explains a concrete decision path: a whiteboard map of features leads the team to change States → Variants the team chooses multi-dimensional properties over… | ||
| Building IKEA’s Design System to Unlock Innovation | Carola Cassaro, Karolina Boremalm | 17m |
IKEA builds a design system called Scapa design system to standardize product UI and speed delivery, shipping an MVP in six months that bundles Figma + React… | ||
| Mobile web with Figma + Designing for Africa | Namnso Ukpanah, Kayode Jaykay | 25m |
Conference claims that African users are overwhelmingly mobile so design centers on mobile-first patterns built and tested on actual phones, with figma used… | ||
| Bringing modern design to a 400 year old company | Angelos Arnis | 16m |
Posti (founded 1638) reorients from mail to e‑commerce by treating design as strategic, not cosmetic: a federated design system spans 14 teams, uses Figma… | ||
| Inside Figma: failing together | Kelsey Whelan, Nikolas Klein | 24m |
Figma ships a feature called Variants that groups similar components and generates a custom right‑panel UI; the team builds an authoring interface (first… | ||
| Communicating design systems | Viktoriia Nikitina | 30m |
Argues that success depends on concrete choices not slogans and shows how teams use Fluent and Microsoft To Do work to align creators and consumers with… | ||
| Visualising capacity in the context of switching to remote work | Kate Pincott | 22m |
Maps weekly calendars into two-hour focus blocks and enforces a daily one-hour break, shows 10 one-hour focus blocks as a week in Figma so each block equals an… | ||
| Collaboration in product design | Olga Mishyna | 18m |
Claim: embedding design into development beats handoffs. Concrete moves include adding design tasks to Jira so estimations reflect design time, invite… | ||
| Inside Figma: The art of being flexible | Emily Lin, William Wu | 24m |
Auto Layout evolves into a thoughtful subset of flexbox with a concrete claim: v3 adds Auto Layout v3 behaviors — main‑axis and counter‑axis stretch, per‑item… | ||
| Figma components in sync with code components | Andrew Carter | 24m |
Migrates a Sketch UI kit into Figma and aligns Figma components with code by reverse‑engineering the chat component (more than 450+ variants), matching layer… | ||
| Why we need to put accessibility first! | Furquan Ahmad | 20m |
A clear claim backed by numbers and tools: only 2% of the top 1M sites meet basic accessibility while over a billion people have disabilities and 70% of UK… | ||
| Designing for the command line | Amanda Pinsker | 22m |
Design focuses on concrete choices: building the GitHub CLI (gh) commands like gh issue list, showing success messages instead of silence to break no news is… | ||
| Design systems for agencies | Martina Dellepiane, Sergej Spomer | 25m |
Argues that design tokens (not full component libraries) cut alignment overhead for agencies, turning many small style choices into codified decisions; uses… | ||
| Self promotion is not a dirty word | Charli Marie Prangley | 21m |
Claim: self-promotion means deliberately building a reputation, not shouting for followers. It offers a three-step framework: set intentions, evaluate your… | ||
| Inside Figma: Product design snippets | Noah Levin, Kelly Li, Jordan Hsu, Heather Tompkins | 22m |
Four Figma product designers share concrete methods: run Design Debates by polling Slack, use a Figma timer plugin, give teams 30 minutes to prep and five… | ||
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