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Pardon my dust! I just migrated my website to the fantastic Eleventy and am recording the redesign process of adopting my design system for our AI & Design Systems course.

Consulting

I help organizations of all shapes and sizes improve their digital design and develop practices to tackle our ever-expanding, always-changing digital landscape. I help teams by providing industry best practices, hard-earned experience, and actionable advice to help them achieve their user and business goals. Here's some of the things I can help you with:

  • Design systems – I help teams create and evolve successful design systems, helping with everything from high-level strategy to the nitty gritty design & development details and everything in between. I tackle thorny areas like buy-in, architecture, documentation, team structure, workflow, governance, and a whole lot more.

  • Atomic design - Atomic design is a methodology for creating robust design systems that power real product experiences. I introduce the methodology and show how to practically implement atomic design to both create realistic systems and increase design system adoption in product experiences.

  • Design tokens – Design tokens are a critical ingredient of a design system ecosystem and unlocks themeable design systems that can power a multi-product, multi-brand, multi-platform, multi-generation, multi-All-The-Things organization.

  • Design system adoption - Design systems must be used by products in order for them to be successful. I help clients increase design system adoption by helping them define their design system ecosystem, helping plan and work through pilot projects, and describing the end-to-end experience of getting design systems to power real product experiences.

  • Designer/Developer Collaboration – Cross-disciplinary collaboration is critical to product success, and unfortunately that collaboration can be evasive. I help organizations establish pragmatic, actionable strategies and workflows to get designers and developers collaborating a lot more closely.

  • Front-of-the-front-end development - I work with teams to level up their front-end skills and adopt best practices for creating great websites, apps, and systems. I work with teams on topics like Web Components, accessibility, CSS architecture, component architecture, API design, change management, and more.

If you're interested in having me consult with your organization, please get in touch.