Berlin Design Systems Coalition

We’re more than thrilled to launch the first Design Systems Coalition meetup in Berlin. The evening is hosted and sponsored by our beloved friends over at Onefootball. We’ll have two lightning talks followed by a Q&A and open floor discussion.

18:30 Open doors / Snacks & Drinks
19:00 Welcome to Design Systems Coalition Berlin
19:10 Company introduction Onefootball
19:20 Talk: Amin Al Hazwani – Design tokens at Firefox
19:40 Talk: Roland Lösslein – Handoffs with a design system in mind
20:00 Open Q&A
20:30 Snacks & Drinks

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Here's our speaker lineup:

Amin Al Hazwani: Design tokens at Firefox

Amin Al Hazwani is a Designer at Firefox. Based in Berlin, he is currently working on the Photon Design System. He is also a columnist for A List Apart. Former Professor in Web and Media Design at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy, he taught at the MA in Eco-Social Design. From 2009–16 he ran a one-man studio from Italy, specialized in design for screen. Clients included Google, Accurat, Unibz, Studio Mut, and more.

In his talk he is going to talk about design tokens. A design token is an abstraction of a visual property such as color, font, width, animation, and so on. These raw values are language application agnostic and once transformed and formatted can be used on any platform. In today's lighting talk we are going to understand how we use such approach at Firefox and how it helps distributing a design system across people and products.

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Roland Lösslein: Handoffs with a design system in mind

Roland is leading "Design Systems and Tooling" at ResearchGate, an open science platform with more than 14 million researchers registered.

Two years ago ResearchGate established a design system to gain a consistent user experience across their products. But with its introduction it became much more complicated to handoff designs to engineering including all design system relevant information. For existing design handoff tools the design systems abstractions and underlying principles are unknown and can only be interpreted to a certain extend.

In his talk Roland will give you insights on ResearchGate’s design system architecture and their solution to create design handoffs that empower a frictionless design to engineering workflow.

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We’re looking forward to see you there 🙌

Emanuela, Amin, Tim & Roland

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