⚡️ FEDC 2018 - Mina Markham
summary
Describes building Pantsuit design system for hillaryclinton.com by refactoring many fragmented front‑end repos into a stable, reusable CSS architecture, enabling cross‑team components and rapid experiments. Covers concrete wins and failures: cleaning up dozens of repos, adopting modular CSS patterns and build tooling, shipping a main site redesign implemented across multiple apps, and where scalability and governance still break down in practice. Practical details about what worked, what didn’t, and why.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:19About the conference
- 3:12Working at Slack
- 8:14Hillary Clinton campaign
- 12:02Leading the website project
- 15:58Building the design system
- 16:25Job search after campaign
- 19:13Company culture at Slack
- 22:02Learning HTML and CSS
- 26:43Closing and thanks
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