Schema 2021
who it's for
design system leads, product designers, design system engineers, design managers, frontend engineers, tooling engineers, design operations
topics
Figma plugin development; design tokens pipelines; theme and dark mode theming; design system governance models; component libraries aligned with React; onboarding playbooks and labs; dynamic color generation (Material You); visual regression with blend-mode Difference; cross-platform token export via Style Dictionary; migration and contribution-first workflows; accessibility export and focus order
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Keynote - Conference Kickoff | Sho Kuwamoto | 25m |
Three eras trace why design systems matter a claim that freeform and structured design are equally important a concrete vision for a browser based… | ||
| Guidance over governance | Jen Yee, Luca Orio | 45m |
Netflix design systems team argues that Hawkins is guidance not gatekeeping and shows concrete outcomes: a contribution-first system that starts with 18… | ||
| Mastering the art of crafting code-aligned UI kits | Jan Toman | 38m |
Argues that concrete API choices and tooling decide a UI kit’s success not vague promises: aligns Figma variants with React props, bakes token names into… | ||
| Reimagining Atlassian Design System | Jennie Yip | 35m |
A design system narrative that names concrete problems and solutions: Atlassian reframes ADG and Atlaskit as distinct responsibilities, discovers 120+… | ||
| User-centered design system resources | Jeremy Dizon, Runi Goswami, Michael Yom, Joanne Deng | 31m |
Lyft describes concrete resources: a year‑long blog post, sims with Qualtrics for onboarding and hands‑on labs that teach Figma and code, decision trees that… | ||
| Design Tokens on Asana's Design Systems Team | Jina Anne, Ainsley Wagoner, Ivy Wang | 23m |
Asana builds a token system that turns messy hex palettes into semantic tokens so designers and engineers share one source of truth: Figma color styles feed a… | ||
| Building custom Figma plugins to unlock new capabilities | Kelly Gorr, Prasanna Gunuru | 29m |
Microsoft engineers describe concrete plugins, how they built and deployed them, and what actually works: plugins are standard web apps using React and… | ||
| Material You & Figma: Bringing Dynamic Color & brand together | Rody Davis, Ivy Knight | 18m |
Material You generates five key colors from a wallpaper and extrapolates each into 13-tone tonal palettes, enforcing a minimum 60 luminance spread so… | ||
| Driving design transformation with your design system | Didier Boulet | 12m |
Companywide claim: a design system accelerates design transformation by being visible, tangible, measurable. Built a digital system called Quantum on Figma… | ||
| The Governance of Design Systems | Heldiney Pereira | 17m |
The presentation names four governance models and explains who actually updates a design system, when that becomes a bottleneck, and how responsibility scales… | ||
| Design system change management | Hugo Raymond | 12m |
Burberry decides that a design system cannot assume seamless runtime integration across independent product teams so the team builds a central reference site… | ||
| Behind the system: A showcase of files that inspire us | Joel Miller | 19m |
Shows concrete setups: Figma files split styles and components into multiple files, Shopify Polaris–style naming and code‑consistent prop names, a team of 10… | ||
| Design systems panel discussion | Luis Ouriach | 38m |
Panelists describe taking six local design systems and merging them into a single product-plus-service with documentation, training and an accessibility push… | ||
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