Talks on Front-End Development, Design Systems & Productivity

Join me on a journey through web design history as we explore key advances in CSS, design tools, and designer-developer collaboration. Along the way, we'll discover how moving design decisions to an agnostic source of truth can bring teams closer together and improve consistency and efficiency. Through practical examples, we'll examine both the benefits and challenges of design tokens—complete with demos and resources to help you get started.

In this talk, I will take you on a journey through the history of web design, exploring essential advancements in CSS, design tools, and developer-designer collaboration. Step by step, we’ll uncover the benefits of outsourcing our design decisions to an agnostic source of truth that has the potential to bring stakeholders closer together. We’ll take a deep dive into the anatomy, organization, and distribution of design tokens while looking at real-world challenges and best practices. Finally, a selection of demos, tools, and resources will guide you in getting started in the world of design tokens.

In this talk, I demonstrate how to manage tasks, projects, and goals across life and work in a fully integrated system based on the Notion platform.

• History of web design with a focus on developer/designer collaboration
• Real-world examples showcasing the need for design tokens
• Design Tokens: Definition | Anatomy | Organization | Tools
• Live Demos

• A brief history of responsive web design
• Limitations of the responsive approach
• Introducing Container Queries: Mental Model | Syntax | Use cases
• Live Demos

• History of web design with a focus on developer/designer collaboration
• Real-world examples showcasing the need for design tokens
• Design Tokens: Definition | Anatomy | Organization | Tools
• Live Demos