Inayaili León
Staff Program Manager
Inayaili León
Staff Program Manager
DesignOps: designing the API of design teams
DesignOps is the glue that keeps a design org together, and the connective tissue that links design to other disciplines across the company, and beyond. Even if your company doesn’t have a formal DesignOps team, this work is likely being done by someone.
At GitHub, we’re thinking about our DesignOps practice as the API that connects designers to designers, and design to the wider company. Just like when designing APIs, we’ve tried things that didn’t work quite well, and have had to ship several breaking changes as we move towards a more stable release.
In this talk, you will learn:
- How to identify opportunities for DesignOps to be executed more intentionally
- How to see DesignOps as an opportunity to connect not just designers, but design to other disciplines, and design to the community
- Some things we’ve tried at GitHub that didn’t work so well — and some that did
About
Inayaili León is a Staff Design Program Manager at GitHub, where she focuses on design operations, documentation, and more. Previously, she was as a Senior Designer at Microsoft, working on design systems and design ops, and she led the team creating Canonical’s Vanilla design system. She writes frequently for well-known online publications and on her own web design blog, and speaks at local and international web conferences and meet-ups. She’s the co-author of “Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites” (Apress, 2011), and author of “Moving to Responsive Web Design” (Apress, 2016). She’s Panamanian Portuguese, and lives in London — her favourite city in the world.