Sarrah Vesselov
Sarrah Vesselov
Director of Design, Honeycomb
Sarrah is a user experience design professional, speaker, and author with 15+ years of experience in design, development, and management. Since 2017, she has focused solely on leading, mentoring, and growing multi-disciplinary global remote teams in high-functioning organizations. While managing the design team at GitLab, she helped establish the open-source design system, Pajamas. She published Building Design Systems in 2019. These days you can find her directing the design team at Honeycomb.
Aligning people through design systems
Track B (Downstairs), Thursday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Based on material from her book with co-author Taurie Davis, Sarrah will guide you through the basics of building a design system. You’ll learn how to define a design language that can be understood across teams, establish a communication strategy to sell your system to key stakeholders and other contributors, and evaluate options for building and housing your system.