Design system advocates have for years shouted “Let’s stop reinventing the wheel! Let’s save designers and developers time and agony! Let’s promote consistency and cohesion! Let’s ship higher-quality users interfaces!” Design systems help us work smarter and better, but an ironic pattern emerges: every organization ends up building solutions that overlap substantially with what every other organization is building. Right now, vast numbers of human beings are devoting their time and energy to designing, building, documenting, and maintaining the exact same set of common user interface components.

In this talk, Brad Frost will express the need for A Global Design System that would improve the quality and accessibility of the world’s web experiences, save the world’s web designers and developers millions of hours, and make better use of our collective human potential.

We spend so much time and effort creating and maintaining design systems. Yet, many of us can not answer some of these standard questions:
- How is my design system used over time?
- Which team and projects are using my components?
- How can I identify emerging patterns to improve my components?

In this talk you’ll learn about the advancing strategy of design system analytics, what the best companies do to track design system success, and the emerging tools solving these analytics challenges.

There's a prevailing, yet understandable, anxiety that artificial intelligence might one day supplant us as designers, developers, and documentarians. With AI tools improving day by day, it would be imprudent not to prepare for a future where AI could significantly transform our work.

In this timely, fun, and practical talk, Kevin Coyle shows you how you and your teammates can use AI—right now, to deliver better, faster front-end work. He'll show you how to sidestep AI's (often hilarious!) shortcomings. And he'll show how we have to adapt our skills, process, and expectations to make room for our new robot colleagues. This future doesn't have to be scary!