The Creation of Design Systems

Design systems offer a set of components, rules and guidelines for a consistent look, feel and experience across applications and platforms. Such systems enable your organization to design at scale and thereby achieve higher degrees of velocity, efficiency and consistency.

Are you creating or using a design system? Want to know how to get started creating one? Bring your burning questions and join us for a conversation about our experiences with design systems. Some of the topics we’ll cover include:

Benefits and business justifications

Designing for multiple platforms

Integrating universal design

Building a system design team

Scaling and documentation

Developing component libraries for frameworks and platforms

Charter Communications and DenverUX host this panel discussion on July 12 at The Cable Center, located on the DU campus.

The Speakers will be:

Patrick Hansen
Baker Technologies - Sr. Product Designer

In the past 20+ years I have touched practically every facet of design, from graphics, layout, branding & identity, industrial, and what I primarily work with today, interactive and user experience design.
I have worked through several evolutions of design systems over the years, with a focus on getting great design to development as fast as possible with minimal loss in translation.
Outside of pixels, I am an avid snowboarder, skateboarder, fine artist, DJ, jiu-jitsu practitioner, guitarist, producer and traveler.

Rob Hunter
Healthgrades - VP

Rob Hunter currently leads product design at Healthgrades, having previously led teams in financial services, sports technology, and publishing. He's been passionate about systems design since his newspaper design days, and is currently working toward delivering his 5th (two failed) design system to consumer facing products.

Ryan Spohn
Google - UX Manager
I’m a UX designer who is passionate about delivering high quality products
that enhance people's lives. I value cross-discipline collaboration and believe great products balance the needs of business, end users, and utilize the latest technology. Prior to Google, I worked on design teams at large enterprise companies like Salesforce,
where I helped develop the Lightning Design System, and a series of small startups, including HiveLive (acquired by Oracle RightNow), and SafetyWeb.com (acquired by Experian). When I'm not perched in front of a whiteboard, I enjoy spending time with my family,
traveling, and further educating myself in the areas of design and our environment.

Christopher Dura
Charter - Sr. Engineer, Prototype Design

I started out with an art degree in animation and opted to stay in Denver instead of pursuing the shiny lights of feature film work out in Hollywood, etc. I took creative odd jobs and freelance work, including a small consultancy firm specializing in animation, graphics and creating interactive presentations for courtroom litigation. I’ve always been very technical-minded and out of necessity, I taught myself enough to become a novice coder/hacker. Eventually, I landed at Time Warner Cable, lured by the temptation of 20-million end users, and quickly found myself abandoning the more aesthetic disciplines of design to focus on higher-level UX processes, and started to get a passion for Inclusive Design (a.k.a, Accessibility). I became the de facto “prototyper” for the TWC design team, where I stayed until Charter acquired TWC several years ago. Here at Charter, I’m working to create an agnostic UI Component Library implementation of the Design System.