Schema by Figma London 2022
2022-11-09
London, United Kingdom
who it's for
design system maintainers, product designers, design ops managers, frontend developers, accessibility engineers, developer experience engineers
topics
design tokens file format; semantic tokens and aliases; headless design systems with tokens; Figma branching and releases; split libraries and foundations; multidimensional theming systems; Figma Community and GitHub workflows; test-driven design for components; accessibility swatches and HSL index; governance for open source systems
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| London Opening Keynote - Conference Kickoff | Jacob Miller | 16m |
Design systems grow powerful but costly: layout, theming and process create maintenance burdens. Concrete fixes include splitting components into subcomponents… | ||
| An introduction to the design tokens file format | James Nash, Louis Chenais | 19m |
A community‑defined design tokens file format exists as a draft that aims to make tokens portable between tools like Figma by specifying concrete structure… | ||
| Multidimensional design systems | Patrycja Rozmus | 28m |
Claims a working multidimensional system called pencil design system used to align product, marketing and brand across Brainly with 300 million users in 35… | ||
| Research-driven design systems | Brice Fontaine, Jack Roles | 21m |
An internal research report interviews 17 designers and engineers and surfaces concrete failures: duplicated Confluence pages, separate Figma theme libraries… | ||
| Rebranding, or the subtle art of juggling new and legacy design systems | 22m | |
Company executes a rebrand in 3 months while keeping two active design systems, using a small SWAT team then scaling to 80 designers; the team duplicates the… | ||
| Navigating complex system updates | Gonzalo Vasquez, Leonie Proske | 23m |
Zalando updates a core product card that appears in 400 files with 40K instances and affects 50+ teams and ~140k component inserts per week; a wrong move risks… | ||
| Building an open source design system for the many | Ahcène Amrouz, Antoine Puig | 23m |
Builds an open source national design system used by more than 100 websites and aimed at 1.5k users with a hybrid governance model that mixes central authority… | ||
| Speaker Panel Q&A | Patrycja Rozmus, Hiroshi Mendoza, Nathan Curtis, Lauren LoPrete | 35m |
Panelists name concrete practices and tradeoffs: Uber shows a push toward coverage percentage and parity between Figma and code with base tracking, the… | ||
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